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Hospitals rate drug abuse potential in patients

By Dayton Daily News  
   December 27, 2011

Local hospitals have begun assessing their patients' prescription drug histories and their potential to abuse those drugs, part of a broader effort to end a local and statewide overdose epidemic. Montgomery County has an unusually high accidental overdose death rate of 23 per 100,000 people, twice the rate of Ohio's other urban counties. Last year, 127 people died in the county from unintentional drug overdoses.

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