'Staggering' hike in painkillers prescribed
Photo credit: AP | In this file photo, a pharmacy tech poses for a picture with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, the generic version of Vicodin, at Oklahoma Hospital Discount Pharmacy in Edmond, Okla. (Aug. 5, 2010)
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Prescriptions in New York City for some of the most widely abused painkillers have increased by a "staggering" 124 percent in the past five years, with much of that increase occurring in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, a key city prosecutor said Wednesday.
The increase last year in the number of prescriptions filled for oxycodone and hydrocodone reached nearly 2 million, the equivalent of...
