Prescription Painkiller

Prescription Painkillers that contain morphine and codeine can cause dependency and addiction. In the U.S. figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that prescription drugs cause most of the more than 26,000 fatal drug overdoses each year. The number of overdose deaths from opioid painkillers — opium-like drugs that include morphine and codeine — more than tripled from 1999 to 2006, to 13,800 deaths that year.