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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Prescription drug addiction in the United States has reached an all-time high, and a Pennsylvania lawmaker is seeking to identify and help addicts through a database that would track use of medications.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that prescription drugs were involved in 20,044 of the 36,450 fatal overdoses in the country in 2008, according to the most recent statistics available. And 14,800 of the prescription drug deaths -- 74 percent -- involved opioid pain relievers such as OxyContin, Opana, Vicodin and methadone. That rate for prescription opioid fatalities is more than three times what it was in 1999 and now exceeds overdose deaths involving heroin and cocaine combined.
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