PM - Minimize People Starting to Misuse Opioid Drugs
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PM - Minimize People Starting to Misuse Opioid Drugs
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Potential Measures
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The calculations below show that more work needs to be done to minimize people starting to misuse opioid drugs:
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| Dollars spent on prescribing opioids over [#] years. |
Over a 6 year time period, increased sales of OxyContin corresponded to increased misuse of OxyContin. |
From 1996 to 2012, global OxyContin sales increased for US$48m to over US$2.4bn |
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| Number of opioids dispensed in the US over [#] years compared to number of opioid related deaths. |
Tripling of opioid prescriptions paralleled tripling of opioid-related deaths. |
From 1991 to 2011, opioid prescriptions dispensed tripled in the US: from 76 million to 219 million prescriptions. This paralleled the tripling of opioid-related deaths over the same time period. |
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