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I'd be surprised if more than 5% (probably even less) of the population should be on heavy painkillers at any given time. I don't know statistics from other cou
by dx034 10y ago
I'd be surprised if more than 5% (probably even less) of the population should be on heavy painkillers at any given time. I don't know statistics from other countries but we're talking about pills that are being used to treat severe pain, not just a headache.
- greeneggs 10y agoIn this article, they found that ~10% of surveyed Americans used prescription painkillers in the last 30 days, including ~6% on narcotic analgesics. Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012 E. Kantor et al., JAMA 2015 http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2467552 http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2467552
- jsjohnst 10y ago2x Opiod pain pills a day every day for an entire year is a very serious amount of pain if legitimate. If a state were to legitimately have 10% of its population that badly hurting, there should be a huge governmental investigation into what factor is causing that much crippling pain. Of course we know it's not legitimate though.