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September 14, 2017 | Compliance

With roughly 64,000 people dying from drug overdoses last year and with nearly one-third of those deaths involving prescription painkillers, the current administration has declared the opioid epidemic a “National Emergency.” Every day more than 1,000 people are treated in emergency departments across the country for misusing prescription opioids. It is estimated that almost 80% of heroin users first struggled with prescription opioid addiction. In this sense, prescription painkillers are walking users to heroin’s door, across that threshold … Read More