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Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addiction

Painkiller Addiction

Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic....

 

Study finds sleeping pills associated with higher risk of cancer and death

Sleeping Pills

Prescription sleep medications, also called hypnotics, rank among the most-advertised and most-prescribed drugs in the United States. Might these pills be doing more than helping people get a good night’s sleep?

 

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