The idea that abuse of prescription drugs is rampant is no longer a subject of debate, but rather one of fact.
Add to that fact that another serious problem with patients prescribed opioids is that they now take them in combination with other drugs that don’t mix well with the powerful painkillers.
A study by Madison, New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics, the lab data company, found that more than half of those who take opioid medications do so in “ways that put their health at risk,” either because they showed evidence of an unsafe combination of drugs or they showed that the patient was skipping doses.
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