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Originally Posted by Villages PL
You won't find it on a list of the leading causes of death due to disease because it's not considered a disease.
You would have to do a separate search for deaths due to (legal) prescription drugs.
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I thought you were trying to make a point of drugs used to
maintain and
improve health but obviously you mean drugs used to stop pain, such as oxycodone and morphine that drug users use to get high and combine with other illegal drugs and overdose and die.
Prescription Drug Deaths Increase Dramatically - Scientific American
I was surprised and SHOCKED to see that Oxycodone was the second most commonly used drug prescribed by physicians.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/11...ription-drugs/