[Pharmwaste] Accidental prescription overdoses soaring

[Scott Cassel]

>From Bill Turpin, Waste Management Inc.


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 29 2008

Deaths from medication mistakes at home, such as actor Heath Ledger's
accidental overdose, have risen dramatically. A new study blames the
soaring home use of prescription painkillers and other drugs that were
used mainly in hospitals 25 years ago. The findings, based on nearly 50
million U.S. death certificates, are in Monday's Archives of Internal
Medicine. 

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