New York City to Restrict Prescription Painkillers in Public Hospitals’ Emergency Rooms
at
Bloomberg doesn’t want you washing oxy’s down with a jumbo coke.
“Abuse of prescription painkillers in our city has increased alarmingly,” Mr. Bloomberg said in announcing the new policy at Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public hospital in Queens.
Over 250,000 New Yorkers over age 12 are abusing prescription painkillers.
Read more at nytimes.com.
