This is a big reason Americans are addicted & dying from overdoses.
A dentist I used for an extraction (not my regular dentist) offered me pain meds, I told him I didn't need them. He was shocked. I was correct, I wasn't in any pain after, just applied ice for a while for swelling.
76 billion opioid pills: Newly released federal data unmasks the epidemic
By Scott Higham ,
Sari Horwitz and
Steven Rich July 16 at 8:19 PM
America’s largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006 through 2012 as the nation’s deadliest drug epidemic spun out of control, according to previously undisclosed company data released as part of the largest civil action in U.S. history.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/76-billion-opioid-pills-newly-released-federal-data-unmasks-the-epidemic/2019/07/16/5f29fd62-a73e-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html?utm_term=.77f0cbe8ab21

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