Healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid analgesic medications in 2012, enough for every American adult to have a bottle of pills
Enough prescription painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for a month
Hawaii had the lowest prescribing volume in the nation—52 prescriptions per 100 residents
Ten of the highest prescribing states for painkillers are in the South
Alabama and Tennessee had the highest prescribing volume—143 prescriptions per 100 residents
Each day, 46 people in the US die from an overdose involving opioid analgesics
Overdose deaths from opioid analgesics continue to rise—from 4,030 in 1999 to 16,651 deaths in 2010
Source: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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