Prescription pain reliever overdose increases 400 percent among women
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, opiate pain reliever deaths among women jumped between 1999 and 2010, during which time nearly 48,000 women died from prescription pain killers. NBC’s Tom Costello reports.July 2, 2013
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