The National Safety Council has released a new survey on Opioid misuse...
According to the survey, 25 percent of people in the United States knows someone who has overdosed or died from opioid use, knows someone who has become addicted to opioids, or has become addicted themselves.
Recently, Florida Blue announced they would no longer cover OxyContin and plan to replace the drug with Xtampza ER.
The council says many have these drugs in their medicine cabinets and they are urging residents use proper pharmaceutical disposal to keep the drugs out of our landfills.
The opioid crisis is the worst drug epidemic in recorded U.S. history.
Yet despite the depth of the crisis, 40 percent of Americans are not concerned about prescription pain medication as a health and safety threat to their family – perhaps because they do not know what they are being prescribed.