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>3. I'm not sure it's a safe bet that opiate addiction is in every community. Seems like a false assumption. To my knowledge there are geographic differences, e

>3. I'm not sure it's a safe bet that opiate addiction is in every community. Seems like a false assumption. To my knowledge there are geographic differences, economic differences, and medical access differences between cohorts that use and those that don't. The data is pretty staggering. 1 in 3 Americans have an opiate prescription each year, 1 in 20 had misused or obtained opiates, and 1 in 100 self-reported as an addict: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-one-third-americans-prescribed-opioids-in-2015/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-one-third-americans-p...

mirimir 8y ago
> Nearly 92 million U.S. adults, or about 38 percent of the population, took a legitimately prescribed opioid like OxyContin or Percocet in 2015, according to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. That is mind boggling! I had no idea that opioid prescriptions were that common. So is this a Baby Boomer effect?
totalZero 8y ago
More than 1 in 6 Americans live in NY or CA. That doesn't mean CA and NY residents are in every community.