Whitney is Latest Poster Girl for Overdose Epidemic
Maria Lianos-Carbone
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Posted 05.10.2012
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Canada
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It's not just celebrities like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston who struggled with prescription drug addiction in their adult years. Drug overdose death rates in the U.S. have more than tripled since 1990; the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that about seven million people regularly use prescription drugs for non-medical purposes.
