http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, enough prescription painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every American adult around the clock for a month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-prescription-drug-aimed-curbing-painkiller.html Medications Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:56:22 EST news285407776 (Medical Xpress)—Higher mortality rates among Americans younger than 50 are responsible for much of why life expectancy is lower in the United States than most of the world's most developed nations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-links-mortality-age-life-lagging.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:58:12 EST news282329792 (HealthDay)—Opioid analgesics are involved in the majority of pharmaceutical-related overdose deaths, frequently involving drugs prescribed for mental health conditions, according to a research letter published in the Feb. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-opioids-involved-medical-overdose-deaths.html Medications Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:10:01 EST news280674055 Despite data on rising rates of abuse and overdoses of narcotic pain medicines across all age groups, in a new poll from the University of Michigan, most parents said they are not very concerned about misuse of these medicines by children and teens. . http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-parents-numb-misuse-narcotic-pain.html Health Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:32:00 EST news278159488 Drug overdose was the leading cause of death among homeless adults in Boston from 2003 to 2008 and accounted for one-third of deaths among those ages 25 to 44. A study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) compared rates and causes of death among those served by BHCHP with data from a similar 1997 study and found that, while drug overdose had replaced HIV as the leading cause of death, overall mortality rates had not changed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-drug-overdose-death-homeless-adults.html Health Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:00:01 EST news277380759 Illicit drug overdose deaths in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside dropped by 35 per cent after the establishment of Insite, North America's first supervised injection facility, according a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-overdose-deaths-percent-vancouver-site.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:30:17 EST news222348610