When you take a look at the unnatural deaths in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, what you see over and over is not heroin or not cocaine, not even alcohol as much as you see Xanax, oxycodone, Methadone, and hydrocodone.
Conway points out that prescription drugs are the leading cause of unnatural deaths in Kentucky.
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The cost comes in crime. People are committing thefts to get access to resources to buy pills.
About 80 percent of the crime according to law enforcement and prosecutors is fueled by the abuse and the insidious addiction to prescription painkillers.
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