Think about this, the DEA could follow every pill. You're putting all the blame on drug companies, but the DEA had this data all along. Didn't seem to bother them in the least. Maybe you should be looking into why the DEA was asleep at the switch while pill mills thrived in WV?
America’s largest drug companies distributed 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodonepain pills across the country between 2006 and 2012. When you have 203 pills per person in Mingo, WV, they had to have known that was an excessive amount.https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/dea-pain-pill-database/?utm_term=.9818a21bf13b …
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1 pill lasts 4-6 hrs thus 6 pills a day = 180/mo=2600/year per person. 100 million pain patients. Say 1/4, 25million, require meds. 25 million x 2600= 68 billion pills/yr x 6 years = 390 billion pills/6yrs (if all on these drug). 76 bill/6yrs is low, not high.
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That is just counting chronic pain patients, then you factor in those who had surgeries, broken bones, other painful accidents/injuries, painful disease that needed pain meds short term or intermittent. These numbers are not as ridiculous as you seem to think
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There’s numerous factors DEA doesn’t have a clue about. Many patients w/chronic pain take two prescriptions. A maintenance pain medication around the clock and a much lower dose med “break thru” pain between maintenance doses.
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