New figures are showing that over the past couple of years opioid prescriptions have gone down. This is interesting because recently a light has been shown on the growing problem of the opioid epidemic. As death's from opioid overdoses has tripled since 1999 to over 30,000 a year. So these new findings come as a surprise to me. Then how are prescriptions being reduced and how despite them being reduced do opioid overdoses continue to climb. In regards to the reduced prescriptions that falls mainly on state monitoring of prescriptions. Not regulation just plain oversight. As for he increasing overdoses I think that's more a social in many working class white homes and economics as well as reformed treatment will help that.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/prescriptions-for-opioids-decline-amid-epidemic/
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