Skyrocketing Epidemic Among Women: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses
Category: WELLNESS
Our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are dying from these overdoses at rates never seen before. Every three minutes, a woman visits an emergency department for opioid misuse or abuse. That accounts for more than 200,000 emergency department visits a year.
By Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Contributor
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2013-07-06