Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses

Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by snrplfth on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:45AM (#13211669)

I mean, I don't know what those numbers are. But when people give a per capita value for something that occurs over time, nearly always, that value is per annum. But here it wasn't, it was over several years.

It'd be like saying "the per capita income of New York State is $185,688!" When that's actually the per capita income over six years.

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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by detaro on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:48AM (#13211688)

The 6 year scope is in the sentence immediately before, and it is clear that it means per capita over all the shipments (it says so!) and not per year/unit of time.

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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by snrplfth on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:50AM (#13211706)

I was replying to the comment, which left out that context from the quoted statement. Context which I knew because I read the article.

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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by detaro on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:55AM (#13211736)

Fair enough, I didn't think about that the isolated quote here in the comments could be misleading.

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