Health Headlines: Painkillers Making People Too Disabled to Work?

Bay News 9 - According to a new study by The Dartmouth Institute, which examined over 9 million prescription records of people receiving benefits because they're too disabled to work, "Roughly 4 million Americans too disabled to work are prescribed heavy-duty painkillers, such as OxyContin, Vicodin, codeine and morphine". "Almost half — over 40 percent — filled a prescription for opiates in a year, and one in five was filling six or more prescriptions per year," says Associate Professor of TDI Ellen Meara. Read more...