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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by misja111 on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:11AM (#13212298)
You're right, that makes sense. So the situation is probably that most of the people take nothing and 5% or so takes 6 a day and lives in a permanent state of sedation.
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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by Clubber on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:14AM (#13212322)
Sedatives are different. Also people who are on painkillers lose the "high" after a while, so for the most part, they are normal functioning people, which is the idea.

Also, as an aside, take into account that there are 5+ million car accidents a year. I would guess that is or at least is one of the leading causes of chronic pain in the US.

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