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'Hillbilly Heroin' Named As One Culprit

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Death by Overdose Doubled in Five Years - 'Hillbilly Heroin' Named As One Culprit
'Hillbilly Heroin' Named As One Culprit
 Published: Feb 9, 07
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With prescription pain killers being given out like candy, it’s no surprise that deaths by accidental overdose have doubled in the past five years. Although not the only culprit, OxyContin - known as Hillbilly Heroin on the street - has been named as one of the drugs contributing significantly to this alarming trend.

According to Dr. Anne Marie McKenzie-Brown, a pain medicine expert at Atlanta’s Emory Crawford Long Hospital, “There is a misperception that because a drug is a prescription medicine, it’s safe to use for non-medical reasons. And clearly that is not true.”

Unintentional fatal drug overdoses in the United States nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004, overtaking falls to become the nation's second-leading cause of accidental death, behind automobile crashes, the government reported. OxyContin has been blamed for hundreds of deaths across the country in recent years, becoming such a scourge in Appalachia that it is known as "hillbilly heroin." (cnn)

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Death by Overdose Doubled in Five Years