More painkiller addicts sign up for help as prescriptions soar
Dutch NewsThe number of people treated for painkiller addiction in the Netherlands has soared in recent years, rising from 92 in 2013 as a whole to 252 in the first six months of 2019, the NRC said on Monday. The figures come from the country’s main five addiction clinics, where addicts ranging from lawyers to plumbers are being treated, the paper said. The number of people in the Netherlands prescribed heavy opiate painkillers has risen 55% in the past seven years, according research published late last year by the Dutch health insurers association ZN. By 2017, the last year for which figures are available, over one million people were being prescribed painkillers such as Oxycodone and Tramadol, and 218,000 people had been taking them for more than three months, ZN said.
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