UN: U.S. consumes 80% of world's oxycodone
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Prescription painkillers "are not a panacea," said Dr. Lynn Webster of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. "But some patients respond very well and we need to have these medications available."
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Gram for gram, people in the United States consume more narcotic medications than any other nation worldwide, a factor some experts say is driving an epidemic of pain-pill abuse.
"We've gotten too used to popping pills in this country," said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, chief of psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. "There are other ways to deal with pain."
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