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bxsephjo t1_j87c2vk wrote

Reply to comment by Sparkykc124 in [OC]Combating The Opioid Epidemic Medicaid's Opioid Prescription Decline by Away-Pepper-9239

Sounds like your mind is made up…

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Sparkykc124 t1_j87cis9 wrote

Can you refute anything I said? Or comment on the fact that opioid deaths and use are up even though prescriptions of opioids have become almost impossible to get for the last five or so years?

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Kebo94 t1_j87pbjj wrote

US consumes 80% of the worlds opiods. How is that "almost impossible".

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Steeled14 t1_j87rtc9 wrote

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/3/8/the-myth-that-americans-consume-80-of-the-worlds-opioids

I thought that sounded like that number made about zero sense, and I found that the “80%” figure you mentioned has been repeated all over the place and it’s incredibly false. At one point in time, at one point, the United States had 80% of world’s sales for oxycodone. 99% for hydrocodone (every other country uses different stuff like classic morphine). Careful with statistic facts and numbers out there, I tend to remind myself constantly.

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Steeled14 t1_j87s2y8 wrote

Oxycodone and Purdue is a problem that definitely should be talked about but if we hyper-focus on it too much we are missing about a hundred chapters of the rest of the story. Or twenty chapters, I don’t have an exact number but you know what I’m saying.

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