A scary rise in painkiller abuse on Staten Island has the city Health Department visiting doctors’ offices there to warn of the hazard.
While OD deaths from prescription opioids soared 65 percent citywide between 2005 and 2011, the increase on Staten Island was 261 percent, new figures reveal.
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