Thursday, December 15, 2011

Drug-addicted patients will be deprived of free medicines

We could say: in the U.S. abuse of painkillers has taken a national scale. In an effort to control the situation staff, Department of Health and Human Services proposed in the framework of social insurance programs Medicare does not disburse popular painkillers, outstanding on prescription, if there is suspicion that the patient abused tool.

It's no secret that some patients visit several doctors in order to obtain from each destination on drugs. And, according to the Accounting Chamber, in 2008 about 170 000 people with Medicare receive appointment of five or more physicians are often taken drugs.

So, the list of most popular painkillers OxyContin and includes perkotset. According to estimates, from an overdose of painkillers kill more people than cocaine and heroin combined. For example, in 2008 set a record - from a drug overdose deaths of about 15,000 people.

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