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In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calculated that healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers. That is enough for every American adult to receive a bottle of pills.

Medicine Cabinet Minefield: How old prescriptions drugs are fueling an opioid addiction crisis

by Karen Amstutz

November 7, 2016Addiction, Epidemic, Magellan, Magellan Healthcare, Opiate, Opioid, Prescription Drugs