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Actually the opposite. Pharma making people addicted: Opioid epidemic and all.

• whimsicalism 4y ago
  it has gone very much the other way in recent years, it is not easy to be prescribed opioids in the US nowadays.
  • RGamma 4y ago
    Oh I wasn't updated on that development. Good to hear!
  • SemanticStrengh 4y ago
    source/numbers of the number of prescriptions per year? https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html
    • whimsicalism 4y ago
      https://www.iqvia.com/-/media/iqvia/pdfs/institute-reports/prescription-opioid-trends-in-the-united-states/iqi-prescription-opioid-trends-in-the-us-1220-exhibit-1.svg?iar=0&mw=900&hash=FEC7E37FD591600FF5F24E3748B638C7 https://www.iqvia.com/-/media/iqvia/pdfs/institute-reports/p... from https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/reports/prescription-opioid-trends-in-the-united-states https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/reports/p...
      • SemanticStrengh 4y ago
        thanks, remarkably linear def doesn't look like a stock market