Percodan, Aspirin/Oxycodone News

Wyckoff a ' A dental assistant student was arrested on Dec. 21 for attempting to fraudulently fill a prescription for a narcotic painkiller, police said.

Experts are concerned with a finding that suggests chronic pain patients with a history of depression are much more likely to receive prescriptions of opioid medications .

It can be snorted or swallowed and have you hooked within days. Sound scary? How about the fact that one in five Grade 8 students in the Simcoe Muskoka region have recreationally experimented with this type of drug.

Chronic pain in America is just beginning to be seen as a health care crisis that needs regular medical supervision in order to restore a quality of life to the 76.2 million sufferers as reported by the National Centers for Health Statistics.

Account for 5 percent of admissions for addiction treatment nationally, according to 2007 data from the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.