Warning: Deaths from painkiller patch (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Improper use of patches that emit the painkiller fentanyl is still killing people, the government said Friday - its second warning in two years about the powerful narcotic. Some of the deaths came after doctors prescribed the patches to the wrong patients, the Food and Drug Administration said. The drug is for chronic pain in people who are used to narcotics, such as cancer patients - yet the ...

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