Mayo Clinic Minute: The face of prescription opioid addiction

Prescription drug abuse is contributing to the opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S., and the face of addiction is changing. ?The setting in which opioids?are provided has changed dramatically,? says Dr. Mike Hooten, a Mayo Clinic pain management specialist. More than 40 percent of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths in 2016 involved a prescription opioid.?And [...]
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