THE NEW ADDICTION: PART 2:
Rising use of painkillers taking deadly toll
Prescription drug deaths overtake those from street drugs
The local situation: Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy shows the equivalent of 258 case files -- the number of deaths from prescription narcotics overdoses in 2007 -- in the coroner's office file room Wednesday. Murphy has called the prescription drug deaths a "dire situation." Photo by: Tiffany Brown
Monday, July 7, 2008 | 2 a.m.