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KICKING AND SHINING
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The drug Fentanyl has been rated the second deadliest drug in accidental deaths. The FDA said it has been misused and wrongly prescribed, and is suspect to contributing to 3,500 accidental deaths. This is in the patch form. One child has died after applying the patch for a parent. Honestly, it's sad to say that I don't think the new warning will help. That's a potent painkiller, and is a great help to people that are truly suffering, but it also leads to addicts trying to get ahold of the patches and of course eating the inside of the patches all at once. It absorbs into the skin and depending the strength there's no doubt a little child could die from having contact with it. Also, people aren't properly disposing of them after use.http://www.latimes.com/news/printed...2dec22,1,4417645.story?coll=la-news-a_section