CDC Wrongly Blames People
With Chronic Pain And Prescription Pain Medications For The Increased Overdose
Deaths From 2011 To 2013: The Evidence
In October 2015 based upon CDC statistics and press release
almost all news agencies as diverse as Huffington Post and Washington Post
reported a dramatic increase in the number of overdose deaths in the last three
years. The core message emphasized CDC conclusion that this dramatic increase
was due to prescription pain medications. CDC also provided serious warnings
about prescription pain medications and their crucial role in causing addiction.
A careful analysis of CDC statistics reveal major errors.
Overdose Deaths From Prescription Pain Medications Have Declined From 20
11 to 2013
Year
2011 2013
#Deaths 7.3 7.2 100.000
population
Why Do We Have Greater Number Of Overdose Deaths In 2013 versus 2000?
§ Greater
number of suicides (10.4 in 2000 versus 12.6 in 2013 per hundred thousand
population ).
§ Greater number of deaths from illicit drugs (0.7
heroine deaths in 2000 versus 2.5 in 2013 per hundred thousand population).
§ Greater
use of over-the-counter pain medications.
Who suffer because of misleading CDC statistics?
§ People
with chronic pain. (Exaggeration of risks associated with treatment).
§ People
with mental illness. (Underestimation of mental illness).
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