Earlier this year, the DEA issued a Public Safety Alert warning of the increased availability of fake prescription pills. These lethal counterfeit pills may contain fentanyl and methamphetamine, which leads to great risks for employers and the public.
The 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 9.9 million Americans over the age of 12 had misused controlled prescription drugs in the past year. Shockingly, Over 50 percent of the abused drugs were obtained from friends or family, often from the home medicine cabinet. In an effort to address the prescription drug problem, The Drug Enforcement …
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there were over 20,000 deaths related to synthetic opioids in 2016. Synthetic overdoses resulted in more deaths than heroin, cocaine, semi-synthetic opioids and methamphetamine overdoses.
