https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...ea-pain-pill-database/?utm_term=.2829a8b98f44
Sadly, mine does not surprise me at all. :(
FYI- There is no paywall, they just need an email to read.
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DEA's pain pill database has been made public- see how many pills were prescribed in your community
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...ea-pain-pill-database/?utm_term=.2829a8b98f44
Sadly, mine does not surprise me at all. :(
FYI- There is no paywall, they just need an email to read.
Very interesting but unfortunately I can't access without a subscription. You used to be able to check it in private mode but that doesn't seem to work anymore. I can say without even looking that WV will be an epicenter for sure. When I went to school up there in 06 it was already being ravaged by it
The OP needs to specify that this is behind a paywall since the title says "see how many pills were prescribed in your community," I can't because it's behind the WaPo paywall.
I just used uBlock Origin's element picker mode to eliminate the paywall.
As for Wayne County, Michigan, it got over 600 million pain pills, or over 40 per person.
As for Wayne County, Michigan, it got over 600 million pain pills, or over 40 per person.
"From 2006 to 2012 there were 98,843,372 prescription pain pills, enough for 31 pills per person per year, supplied to Burlington County, N.J."
a CVS in Mount Laurel received the highest number of pills
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I don't think it's paywalled. You just have to punch in an email address.
Remember, private windows work.
11.1M in my county in Michigan, 60 pills per person per year from 2006 to 2012.
Not surprising, painkillers (and meth and probably heroin now too) have ravaged this county as it has others, someone I went to school with (well, she was a grade ahead) looks at least 20 years older than she is because of at least from painkiller abuse. Had a physician's assistant here back in 2007 who got busted for distributing painkillers, had a load of them in his car IIRC when he got pulled over which lead to investigating his records where they found he was falsifying. My grand mother use to see him until he tried to push a cholesterol medication and he was an asshole about it when she refused it.
EDIT: Looking around at it again others were arrested too in the year or so that followed his arrest and it looks like after his license was reinstated in 2010 he moved to Mt. Pleasant and was working in some clinics that were busted for a healthcare kickback/fraud scheme that he was also involved in before being indicted and his license suspended again after he plead guilty to conspiracy to pay and receive health-care kickbacks in 2013.
11.1M in my county in Michigan, 60 pills per person per year from 2006 to 2012.
Not surprising, painkillers (and meth and probably heroin now too) have ravaged this county as it has others, someone I went to school with (well, she was a grade ahead) looks at least 20 years older than she is because of at least from painkiller abuse. Had a physician's assistant here back in 2007 who got busted for distributing painkillers, had a load of them in his car IIRC when he got pulled over which lead to investigating his records where they found he was falsifying. My grand mother use to see him until he tried to push a cholesterol medication and he was an asshole about it when she refused it.
EDIT: Looking around at it again others were arrested too in the year or so that followed his arrest and it looks like after his license was reinstated in 2010 he moved to Mt. Pleasant and was working in some clinics that were busted for a healthcare kickback/fraud scheme that he was also involved in before being indicted and his license suspended again after he plead guilty to conspiracy to pay and receive health-care kickbacks in 2013.
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Hilariously effective.
38 pills per person for Maricopa County (Phoenix and surrounding cities).
Good point.
From 2006 to 2012 there were 173,180,164 prescription pain pills, enough for 53 pills per person per year, supplied to Spokane County, Wash.
Jesus
I've tried a private window and got to view this. Very awful. Would be great if the DEA could release publicly, the full database since the data WaPo focused on is 2006-2012, would be nice to see how much pills were supplied from 2013 to 2018 to see if the numbers decreased any from the 2006-2012 timeframe.
Thanks for the tip.
From 2006 to 2012 there were 312,646,833 prescription pain pills, enough for 48 pills per person per year, supplied to Erie County, N.Y.
Thanks doctors and pharmacists for looking out for your communities.
Only 16 pills per person in my county. That seems reasonable.
My hometown is sitting at 35. Yikes.
My hometown is sitting at 35. Yikes.
Omaha is surprisingly not god awful, just plain awful:
From 2006 to 2012 there were 98,240,473 prescription pain pills, enough for 27 pills per person per year, supplied to Douglas County, Neb.
Right across the river in Council Bluffs however is worse:
From 2006 to 2012 there were 21,186,485 prescription pain pills, enough for 33 pills per person per year, supplied to Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
From 2006 to 2012 there were 98,240,473 prescription pain pills, enough for 27 pills per person per year, supplied to Douglas County, Neb.
Right across the river in Council Bluffs however is worse:
From 2006 to 2012 there were 21,186,485 prescription pain pills, enough for 33 pills per person per year, supplied to Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
Reminder that 2012 was 7 years ago.
Shits probably worse now.
Interesting how it looks like West Virginia/Kentucky were specifically targeted
Shits probably worse now.
Interesting how it looks like West Virginia/Kentucky were specifically targeted
Yeah, look what they do to our communities in KY/WV. These pills ruined dreams, and not just the dreams of folks who use them, but those who care about them , too. I have friends dead over this stuff. It's so sad. One day they do a little pain pill at a party here and there, and two years later they are banging (AKA shooting up) 30/80mg in the bathroom at pizza places while everyone is waiting for their food because they just can't go a few hours without their dope.
I could probably take a guess how bad it is in TN especially my city. It's been plaguing my city for a long time so much so they started running traps between here and Florida for pill runs and have been trying to crack down on pill mills. Our biggest problem was meth years ago now it's all oxy this perc that cars and houses in good parts of the city are getting broken into.
28 pills per person in my county. My cousin unfortunately was addicted to pain pills and eventually became a heroin addict when he couldn't afford the pills anymore. I hate big pharma with a passion because of it.
Leavenworth, KS (105 of the 118 million pills), Charleston, SC, and probably a few others are a bit skewed due to it including VA numbers that fill scripts for the entire country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Mail_Outpatient_Pharmacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Mail_Outpatient_Pharmacy
They probably with how there's been a crack down on opiates being over prescribed, their being harder & more expensive to get is what's lead to the epidemic with cheap heroin.
WOW...thanks.
I probably had the average dispensed to me, one bottle of Hydro for a hernia surgery a few years back - I took 4 of them, luckily we already knew how addictive they could be and I just used them for the initial pain.
it may actually be better now depending on the area. Pain pill use has been on the decline while heroin has been surging.
Likely from pain patients being unable to get the meds they need.