By far the most prescribed drug in the United States is the synthetic opioid hydrocodone. According to WebMd, an astounding 131,200,000 prescriptions were written for hydrocodone in 2010, the last year of record. Under the assumption that each one was probably for thirty pills and renewable once, that comes out to 7.8 billion doses in the U.S. every year. That’s 26 doses per man, woman and child. If this stuff were half as addictive as the DEA (OK, the AMC drama Breaking Bad is on my mind) and the political class think, there’d be a permanent traffic jam outside every emergency room in the nation.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:31:51 +0000
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