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The New Addiction

Published July 16, 2008 at 5:00 AM PDT

Marshall Allen, reporter, LV Sun
Alex Richards, reporter, LV Sun
... on their recent findings that Nevadans consume about twice the national average of several prescription painkillers, making us the most narcotic-addled population in the US and that more people die in Clark County from prescription narcotics overdoses than of overdoses of illicit drugs or from vehicle accidents.

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