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• Child Drug Overdoses Rise as Other Accidental Deaths Fall: CDC

  April 17, 2012

  Staff Writers

  Federal health experts indicate that accidental poisonings and drug overdoses among children are on the rise, even as other causes...

• CDC Calls Prescription Drug Overdoses an Epidemic

  January 31, 2012

  Staff Writers

  U,S. health officials indicate that prescription drug overdoses have reached epidemic proportions, killing someone in the United States once every...

• Embeda Recall Issued Due to Ongoing Manufacturing Problems

  March 16, 2011

  Staff Writers

  Manufacturing problems have led to the recall of Embeda, a morphine-based painkiller plagued with production problems over the last year.