Opioid Painkiller Prescribing Where You Live Makes a Difference July 2014 http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/opioid-prescribing/index.html?s_cid=cdc_homepage_feature_001 From the article: 259 M Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012, enough for every American adult to have a bottle of pills. 259 MILLION… a pretty large number ! There are a estimated 116 million chronic pain pts… […]
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