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They've been underprescribed for probably a decade now. We started overcorrecting long, long ago. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6626a4.htm#:~:text=
by loeg 2y ago
They've been underprescribed for probably a decade now. We started overcorrecting long, long ago.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6626a4.htm#:~:text=Nationally%2C%20opioid%20prescribing%20rates%20leveled,the%20risks%20associated%20with%20opioids https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6626a4.htm#:~:text=....
> First, average daily MME per prescription decreased after 2010, both nationwide and in most counties. The largest decreases occurred from 2010 to 2012, following publication of two national guidelines defining high-dose opioid prescribing as >200 MME/day (15,16). ... Nationally, opioid prescribing rates leveled off from 2010 to 2012, and then decreased by 13.1% from 2012 to 2015. ... This pattern, along with the trends in overall numbers of opioid prescriptions, might reflect fewer patients initiated on opioid therapy after 2012...
- dyauspitr 2y agoHas it really been that long? It feels like the opioid epidemic was not that long ago.
- loeg 2y agoWell, ten years is both a long time and not that long, you know? But yes US prescriptions peaked in ~2012.
- danielheath 2y agoOpioid dependency lags prescription rates pretty significantly - it can take years before someone is in a position to shake the addiction.
- currymj 2y agoit got started with massive overprescription of opioids in the 2000s, then the government belatedly cracked down on that, and a lot of people who got addicted switched to street drugs, which is when the crisis became obvious to the public.