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Opioid Prescribing
Providers in the highest prescribing counties prescribed 6 times more opioids per person than the lowest prescribing counties in 2015.
Half of US counties had a decrease in the amount of opioids (MME*) prescribed per person from 2010 to 2015.
The MME prescribed per person in 2015 was about 3 times as high as in 1999.
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- Page last reviewed: July 6, 2017
- Page last updated: July 6, 2017
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