overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that s one overdose death every thirty minutes. the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. that s a massive increase. massive. over the past 10 years, we ve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. the food and drug administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro - over the objections of its own medical advisors and dozens of lawmakers. i thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. how can you say with any degree of confidence that zohydro won t be abused?you re going to have people die. this week fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america - opioid painkillers. there is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. the drug about
overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that s one overdose death every thirty minutes. the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. that s a massive increase. massive. over the past 10 years, we ve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. the food and drug administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro - over the objections of its own medical advisors and dozens of lawmakers. i thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. how can you say with any degree of confidence that zohydro won t be abused?you re going to have people die. this week fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america - opioid painkillers. there is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. the drug about
overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that s one overdose death every thirty minutes. the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. that s a massive increase. massive. over the past 10 years, we ve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. the food and drug administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro - over the objections of its own medical advisors and dozens of lawmakers. i thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. how can you say with any degree of confidence that zohydro won t be abused?you re going to have people die. this week fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america - opioid painkillers. there is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. the drug about
they said that were intercepted on their way to yemen. with within this context, and against the backdrop of the strained relations between the iranians and saudis it s extremely difficult to forecast a sense of agreement in the near future. it s one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively they are called opioids. these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs. overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that s one overdose death every thirty minutes. the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. that s a massive increase. massive. over the past 10 years, w
overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that s one overdose death every thirty minutes. the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. that s a massive increase. massive. over the past 10 years, we ve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. the food and drug administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro - over the objections of its own medical advisors and dozens of lawmakers. i thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. how can you say with any degree of confidence that zohydro won t be abused?you re going to have people die. this week fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america - opioid painkillers. there is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. the drug about