Listen to an interesting opioid withdrawal story from Travis Rieder on WYPR 88.1 FM in Baltimore. Hosted by Sheilah Kast. Every day doctors write more than 650,000 opioid prescriptions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In some of those cases, addiction follows. As a result, deaths from prescription opioids have more than

The misuse of prescription drugs is endemic in the US. A 2014 survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) indicated that about 15 million people aged 12 or older used prescription drugs non-medically in the previous year. It also found that as many as 6.5 million people did so in a