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According to the National Institute of Health, chronic pain affects more people than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined.
Workers' Compensation Fact: Workers who received high doses of opioid painkillers to treat injuries like back strain stayed out of work three times longer than those with similar injuries...
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact:Nearly half a million emergency department visits in the year 2009 were due to people misusing or abusing prescription painkillers.
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact: The Journal of American Medical Association reviewed hospital billing data from hospitals across from the US examining pregnant mothers using opiates and...
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact: Report from the Center of Disease Control & Prevention states that Prescription Pain Medication kills more people each year than heroin and cocaine...
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact:Prescription painkiller overdoses killed nearly 15,000 people in the US in the year 2008. This is more than 3 times the 4,000 people killed by these drugs...
Addiction Treatment Fact: Good outcomes from TC treatment are strongly related to treatment duration, which likely reflects benefits derived from the underlying treatment process. Still,...
Workers Comp Fact: The share of medical claims receiving narcotics within one year after injury has increased. In 2001, 8 percent of medical claims received narcotics within one year...
Workers Comp: Narcotic use in workers' comp is highly concentrated by active ingredient. For example, hydrocodone BIT/acetaminophen is included in more than 20 percent of the narcotics...
Addiction Fact: After marijuana, prescription and over the counter medications account for most of the top illicit drugs abused by 12th graders in the past year. On the positive side, past...
Workers' Comp Fact: - In 2001, the average cost per claim for narcotics was $18. It rose to $29 in 2005 and held relatively steady for the next several years, but increased to $35 in 2009...
Addiction Fact: - The top 5 percent of users consume more than 70 percent, and the top 10 percent of narcotic users in the workers' comp system consume 80 percent of all narcotics.
Addiction Fact: The top 1 percent of narcotic users consume 40 percent of all narcotics," NCCI reported.
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact: An estimated 14,800 people died in the United States from painkiller overdoses in 2008, a more than threefold jump from the 4,000 deaths recorded in 1999...
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact: More people now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined.
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact: The number of Americans who died from overdoses of prescription painkillers more than tripled in the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease...
Methadone accounted for 2 percent of painkiller prescriptions in the United States in 2009, but was involved in more than 30 percent of prescription painkiller overdose deaths.
Workers' Comp Fact: When medical care and disability payments are combined, the cost of a workplace injury is nine times higher when a strong narcotic like OxyContin is used than when a...
Workers' Comp Fact: “What we see is an association between the greater use of opioids and delayed recovery from workplace injuries,” said Alex Swedlow, the head of research at the...
Prescription Drug Addiction Fact: In Nevada during 2011, 1,585 adolescents from ages 10 to 18 were treated for prescription drug abuse. Nevada is ranked in the top twentieth percent in a...
In Nevada those 12 years and older (5.8%) who responded to the NSDUH in 2008-2009 survey reported using prescription drugs with no medical necessity in the past year. This survey represents 118,...
In 2010, there were 3,983 emergency room visits in Nevada for overdoses of prescription medications. 80% of emergency room visits for prescription drug overdoses are due to abuse of analgesics (...
There were 3,983 emergency room visits in Nevada in 2010 for overdoses of prescription medications. Surprisingly majority of people who seek care for an overdose are women (60%) but the majority...
Nearly 1 in 10 high school seniors through out the nation admit to abusing powerful prescription painkillers. Forty percent of teens and an almost equal number of parents believe abusing...
Prescription pain killers are the new drug of choice, vs. marijuana or cocaine. Opioid painkillers now cause more drug overdose deaths than cocaine and heroin combined. The annual deaths from...
Nearly 7 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs—more than the number who are abusing Scheduled I controlled substances such as
cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, ecstasy, and...
Over one-third (36.1%) of respondents who had used narcotic pain killers did so despite having concerns regarding their use. The top concern among painkiller users was potential side effects (44.9...
According to the Narcotics Research - Thomson Reuters Health Poll, 30.8% of all respondents said they questioned or refused a physician’s recommendation of painkillers. Those who have not used...
Over three-quarters (77.2%) of all respondents said they believe narcotic painkillers are linked to drug addiction, while 59.5% associate narcotic painkillers with depression.
30.5% of respondents who reported using narcotic painkillers did so for chronic pain, a rate that decreased among respondents with higher income and more education. 88% of respondents who said...
Narcotics Research - In the latest NPR- Thomson Reuters Health Poll, we asked Americans about their experience with narcotic painkillers and their views about the drugs. Half the respondents said...
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Nevada was ranked in the top five states in all three age groups for abuse and misuse of prescription pain medications in 2008-2009...
In 2010 it was reported that in Clark County, Nevada(Las Vegas) there were 288 deaths as a result of prescription drug overdoses. On average there were four different substances found in each...
In 2009 through 2011 in the state of Nevada, 2,082 people died from prescription drug overdoses. Fifty-eighty percent of those who died were men and sixty-nine percent of the people were between...
Workers' Comp Fact: “What we see is an association between the greater use of opioids and delayed recovery from workplace injuries,” - Alex Swedlow, Head of Research, CA Workers...
Addiction Fact: In the past year adults from ages 18 or older with drug or alcohol dependence had more thoughts, attempts, and plans to commit suicide compared to the previous years. (12.2...

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