As the nation's opioid crisis grew, the pills got stronger

July 24, 2019

WASHINGTON — In 2012, as the death toll from the nation’s opioid crisis mounted, drug companies shipped out enough of the powerful and addictive painkillers for every man, woman and child in the U.S. to have nearly a 20-day supply.An Associated Press analysis of drug distribution data released as a result of lawsuits against the industry also found that the amount of opioids as measured by total potency continued to rise early this decade even as the number of pills distributed began to dip.

In 2006 and 2007, the counties at the very top of the list of those receiving the most opioids were scattered about the eastern half of the U.S. By 2012, they were all in the Appalachian region. And the numbers were up dramatically. The data comes from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s collection of information from pharmaceutical companies about how controlled substances were distributed down to pharmacies, doctors and hospitals. It’s a key part of the case for some 2,000 state, local and tribal governments suing the industry over the opioid crisis.

Heroin and even stronger illicit drugs such as fentanyl drove the increase for most of this decade. Studies have found that most new heroin users started with prescription drugs that had been prescribed to them or to someone else.

Stop demonizing life saving pain meds. stop the harmful rhetoric. medical patients Rc being harmed by opioid a story on how medicine as we know it is destroyed. How pain patients R left to a story on pain patients left tortured.

Horrifying and this isn’t the illegal ones

Dopeman Dopeman

this story is anti-semitic

Well the DEA tracks this so someone looked the other way.

Bust the” Pain clinics” -

Somebody was getting their cut. Politicians always have their hand out.

They killed us.

The new legal drug cartel

STOP DEMONIZING OPIATES AND THE PATIENTS THAT TAKE THEM!! 100 million live w/ ChronicPain in the US 25 million need daily Opiates to survive! Without our meds patients with CRPS MS EDS Lyme Lupus & more have HeartAttacks & Stroke! DontPunishPain Siebe2020forORD1

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Build the wall!

Genetic weapons

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Who cares? You're focusing on idiocy. 90% of all opioid overdoses involve Mexican herion and Chinese fentanyl smuggled via Mexico. 10% regard any US made prescription meds obtained legally or illegally. BuildTheWall

Where's mine?

Send the folks running those companies at that time to the same prison as EL Chappo for life!

And I thought all the drug cartels were in Central and South America! 🙃

SEOAware How do I track my shipment?

No wonder the voted Trump. They were zombied

Manufacturing addicts that’s not very responsible.

Charge them with drug trafficking.

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