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Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis by secabeen on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:29AM (#17176503)
>3. I'm not sure it's a safe bet that opiate addiction is in every community. Seems like a false assumption. To my knowledge there are geographic differences, economic differences, and medical access differences between cohorts that use and those that don't.

The data is pretty staggering. 1 in 3 Americans have an opiate prescription each year, 1 in 20 had misused or obtained opiates, and 1 in 100 self-reported as an addict:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-one-third-americans-p...

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Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis by mirimir on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:28AM (#17177114)
> Nearly 92 million U.S. adults, or about 38 percent of the population, took a legitimately prescribed opioid like OxyContin or Percocet in 2015, according to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

That is mind boggling! I had no idea that opioid prescriptions were that common.

So is this a Baby Boomer effect?

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Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis by totalZero on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:24PM (#17181727)
More than 1 in 6 Americans live in NY or CA. That doesn't mean CA and NY residents are in every community.
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