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Do you think every person, every man woman and child, has a legitimate need for 2-4 pills of narcotics each day? Am I misunderstanding the figure? Instead of
by chillwaves 10y ago
Do you think every person, every man woman and child, has a legitimate need for 2-4 pills of narcotics each day?
Am I misunderstanding the figure? Instead of 2-4 a day per person, maybe you should calculate how many it is per person with a legitimate need for the drug.
- dmclain 10y agoI think you are misunderstanding the figure, it is 72 pill/year/person, so if an average person with a prescription is taking 2-4 (let's just use 3) they will need 365*3 = 1095 pills/year. That rate of consumption implies that 72/1095 = 6.5% of the total population is on a never ending prescription for opiates. As a percentage of the population, that still seems really high, but WV is taking 0.2 pills/person/day not 2-4 pills/person/day
- chillwaves 10y agoThank you, I did not have time to check my work.