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

Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by dx034 on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:45AM (#13211672)

I'd be surprised if more than 5% (probably even less) of the population should be on heavy painkillers at any given time. I don't know statistics from other countries but we're talking about pills that are being used to treat severe pain, not just a headache.

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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by jsjohnst on Monday December 19, 2016 @10:29AM (#13211963)

2x Opiod pain pills a day every day for an entire year is a very serious amount of pain if legitimate.

If a state were to legitimately have 10% of its population that badly hurting, there should be a huge governmental investigation into what factor is causing that much crippling pain.

Of course we know it's not legitimate though.

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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by greeneggs on Monday December 19, 2016 @10:14AM (#13211866)

In this article, they found that ~10% of surveyed Americans used prescription painkillers in the last 30 days, including ~6% on narcotic analgesics.

Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012 E. Kantor et al., JAMA 2015

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2467552

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