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Is there one prescription pain medicine causing more deaths than the others?

April 26, 2017causing deaths Medicine pain prescription

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Is there one prescription pain medicine causing more deaths than the others?

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From 2004-2007 in Washington State, methadone was involved in 64 percent of these deaths. Methadone stays in the body a long time often much longer than the pain relief. Taking methadone more often than directed can cause an accidental overdose.