The case for and against prescription painkillers
Oftentimes, prescription pain killers are demonized. Opponents of painkiller are likely to cite statistics like this: The annual number of opioid painkiller prescriptions is now at more than 200 million. In hand with that, overdose deaths have shot up from over 4,000 in 1999 to more than 16,000 in 2013, according to data provided by…