Misusing Prescription Drugs
Your Health Minute
More Americans are misusing prescription drugs.
In Your Health News,
A new government report reveals some new statistics about prescription drug abuse in this country.
It shows the non medical use of prescription drugs , mostly opioids and anxiety meds, led to about 360 thousand E-R visits in 2016.
Over half of those visits involved people under 35.
About 40-percent of patients needed hospitalization and nearly a quarter were unresponsive or in cardiorespiratory failure.
