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...the CDC is reporting that fatal overdoses are way up (~63% in five years) and that a substantial portion of those are with psychotherapeutic drugs. They call, among other things, for "increasing physician awareness regarding appropriate pharmacologic treatment of pain and psychiatric problems, supporting best practices for treating drug dependence, and potentially modifying prescription drugs to reduce their potential for abuse."
http://www.cdc.gov:80/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5605a1.htm?s_cid=mm5605a1_e
IOW, psychotherapeutic drug prescribing is problematic enough in the US that this gov't agency says doctors need to improve how they do it to get the overdose rate down.
