NEW YORK (AP) - Sales of prescription painkillers are exploding in new areas, and experts are worried that's creating a wave of addiction.
Pharmacies, hospitals and physicians dispensed the equivalent of 69 tons of pure oxycodone and 42 tons of pure hydrocodone in 2010. That's enough to give 40 5-mg Percocets and 24 5-mg Vicodins to every man, woman and child in the United States.
An analysis by The Associated Press shows distribution of the two drugs is booming from New York's Staten Island to Santa Fe., N.M. Some places saw effective per-capita sales increase sixteenfold between 2000 and 2010.
Oxycodone is the key ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan. Hydrocodone is in Vicodin, Lortab and Norco.
It is creating a wave of addiction. You won't figure this out until it happens to someone close to you. Trying to find treatment that doesn't cost and arm and a leg is almost unheard of and many don't know it's happening to a love one.
ReplyDeleteX amount per....... month/ week/ year???? Exactly what is this number representing?
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ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure it means a day.
Drug dealers in white jackets.Pay my fees for visits and many of them will give you what you want.They are worse than street dealers and less expensive.
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