Identifying prescription abuse via fraud analytics

People are dying from drug overdoses in increasingly alarming numbers. They're from poor, middle-class and wealthy communities. The deaths have jumped in nearly every county just in the U.S. — driven largely by an escalating increase in addiction to prescription painkillers and heroin. That's according to a recent study by The New York Times. (See How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America, by Haeyoun Park and Matthew Bloch, January 19.)