LA County Department of Health Services
Internist and Director of the LA County Department of Health Services
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Mitchell Katz
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FROM Mitchell Katz
Which Way, L.A.?
Do Painkillers Do More Harm than Good: A Doctor's Dilemma The federal Centers for Disease Control produced a surprising finding today about the epidemic of deaths in America from prescription pain-killers. Drug overdoses kill 16,000 people a year. Previously, it had been thought that abusers got their pills from friends and family. The CDC says 27% of chronic prescription drug abuses got them directly from a physician. A recent study by the LA Times showed that doctors' prescriptions lead to 47% of fatal overdoses in Southern California.
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