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Emergency Rooms Clamp Down on Prescription Drug Abuse

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More than 4,000 Californians died from drug overdoses in 2010. The vast majority of those deaths were linked to prescription painkillers like Oxycontin and Percocet. Some addicts feed their addiction with prescriptions from emergency departments -- but hospitals in San Diego and Imperial Counties have gotten wise to the situation.

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