BOSTON – Most patients who receive drugs to treat chronic pain and overdose on opioid medications still get the addictive synthetic opiates through their doctors, a new study shows.
The 12-year study released Monday by the Boston Medical Center tracked almost 3,000 people who were treated in an emergency room or hospitalized for overdosing on prescription opioid painkillers. Researchers led by Dr. Marc LaRochelle, a BMC doctor, found that 91 percent of patients who had overdosed still received prescriptions for the same drugs, including 70 percent who got them from the same doctor. Those who continued to use the painkillers after overdosing were twice as likely to overdose again, the research showed.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert may not respect much of what Donald Trump says, but he does admire the Republican's ability to craft a message that many voters are responding to.
"There is a populism to Trump that I find very appealing," Colbert said on an interview to be shown on CBS' "Face the Nation" this Sunday. "And it's only this: The party elders want him to go away, but the people have decided that he's not going to."
