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November 1, 2014

By the Numbers: Prescription Opioid Addiction

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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