why do large numbers sounds dangerous ?

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… […]

My inbox 07/14/204

This showed up in my inbox today.. I read your article about trying to get your oxycodone filled.  Having the same problem I had an ankle injury that pained me everyday I was seeing a fairly new dr actually a nurse practitioner she refused to give me narcotics well I had some from previous surgeries […]