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

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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