485 people died in Kentucky last year from prescription drug overdoses.
485 people died in Kentucky last year from prescription drug overdoses, according to the state's Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The drugs most commonly found in those death cases were methadone, the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone, alprazolam (Xanax), morphine, diazepam (Valium) and fentanyl, according to the State Medical Examiner. "It's an epidemic and I'm afraid we're losing a whole generation. These pain medications are so highly addictive that these young people are digging themselves a very deep hole." said Beth Lewis Maze, the Chief Circuit Judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit in Kentucky in an interview on MSNBC last month. The problem begins in Florida where lax oversight of pain clinics has allowed the state to become a literal pill mill. Then it travels all over the east coast. For the full story http://news.yourfindit.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=104454&ret