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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000099"><a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/nation/drug-overdose-deaths-up-for-11th-consecutive-year/1275855">http://www.tampabay.com/news/nation/drug-overdose-deaths-up-for-11th-consecutive-year/1275855</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Associated Press</span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Associated Press<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;background:#EAEAEA"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Most of drug overdose deaths in recent years were accidents involving addictive pain killers, such as OxyContin,
despite growing attention to risks from these medications.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">CHICAGO — Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year in 2010, federal data show, and most of them were
accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">"The big picture is that this is a big problem that has gotten much worse quickly," said Dr. Thomas Frieden,
head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which gathered and analyzed the data.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">In 2010, the CDC reported, there were 38,329 drug overdose deaths nationwide. Medicines, mostly prescription
drugs, were involved in nearly 60 percent of the deaths, overshadowing deaths from illicit narcotics.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">The figures for 2010 are the latest available nationally. The report appears in the
<i>Journal of the American Medical Association. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">It details which drugs were at play in most of the fatalities. As in recent years, opioid drugs — which include
OxyContin and Vicodin — were the biggest problem, contributing to three out of four medication overdose deaths.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Frieden said that many doctors and patients don't realize how addictive these drugs can be, and that they're
too often prescribed for pain that can be managed with less risky drugs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">They're useful for cancer, "but if you've got terrible back pain or terrible migraines," using these addictive
drugs can be dangerous, he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Medication-related deaths accounted for 22,134 of the drug overdose deaths in 2010.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Antianxiety drugs including Valium were among common causes of medication-related deaths, involved in almost
30 percent of them. Among the medication-related deaths, 17 percent were suicides.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">The report's data came from death certificates, which aren't always clear on whether a death was a suicide or
a tragic attempt at getting high. But it does seem like most serious painkiller overdoses were accidental, said Dr. Rich Zane, chairman of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">The findings are no surprise, he said. "The results are consistent with what we experience" in emergency rooms,
he said, adding that the statistics no doubt have gotten worse since 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">By the numbers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">Prescription drugs kill an average of more than six people a day in Florida, and Tampa Bay area counties are usually near the top of the list.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">In 2011, prescription drug overdoses contributed to or caused the deaths of
<b>226</b> people in Hillsborough, <b>217</b> in Pinellas and <b>122</b> in Pasco. Hernando figures were not available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#181818">In the past decade, prescription drugs have killed more than
<b>15,000</b> Floridians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Deborah L. DeBiasi</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Email: Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red"><br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">WEB site address:
<a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/">www.deq.virginia.gov</a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Virginia Department of Environmental Quality</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Office of Water Permit and Compliance Assistance Programs</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Industrial Pretreatment/Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Program</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">PPCPs, EDCs, and Microconstituents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx">http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Mail: P.O. Box 1105, Richmond, VA 23218</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">Location: 629 E. Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy">PH: 804-698-4028 FAX: 804-698-4032<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">Next DEA Drug Take Back event is April 27th, 2013 10- 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">See
<a href="www.dea.gov"><span style="color:red">www.dea.gov</span></a> for locations</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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