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The Utah Department of Health released alarming statistics earlier this year that show Utah residents are poisoned at twice the national rate. Many of these cases involve prescription painkiller (opiate) overdoses. The health department found that these overdoses skyrocketed by 500 percent between 1999 and 2007. Overdose deaths attributed to prescription painkillers claimed more than twice as many lives as overdoses due to street drugs, the department said in 2007. The U.S. Department of Health said in 2010 that Utah ranks fourth highest in the nation for non-medical use of opiate and that prescription drug overdoses are the top cause of injury deaths in the state..
The most common methods of diversion in Utah include doctor shopping, or the practice of going from doctor to doctor to have multiple supplies of a controlled substance. Other diversion methods include forged prescriptions, employee theft and the illegal sale and distribution by healthcare workers. Young people are also at risk, as Utah officials report that prescription painkillers such as Lortab are being traded and sold in many schools...
Young people often have to look no further than the family medicine cabinet. To combat this epidemic, which seems to impact all walks of life, state and federal authorities have initiated a task force to address the problem. Participating agencies include the Utah Department of Health, FBI, DEA, the Salt Lake City police department and others...
One of the most prevalent kinds of insomnia is not being able to continue to be lying down all night long. For quite a few patients, there isn any difficulty getting to sleep. It the keeping asleep that is tricky. This often times will be getting out of bed during the night and the inab...
