emergency room visits

Roughly 700,000 Americans were taken to the hospital in 2007 after ingesting drugs -- both legal and illegal -- costing $1.4 billion per year in emergency department charges alone, according to a new study.

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A recent study by the Integrated Care Collaboration (ICC) of emergency room visits in Central Texas discovered that, over the past six years, nine individuals have made 2,678 ER visits to local hospitals, at a cost of $3 million. One of these people visited 145 times last year and 554 times in the...