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I came across this article (see below), i had to cut and copy one of the graphics below as it wouldn't cut and paste into here but its all the original content - the direct link is:
https://apple.news/AkboG7upKTK-4FwPTREqvvA

..the link may or may not work, I had to create a temp (free) account to get it to work. These guys have spent an entire year trying to fight for this information to get out and be published.
Its quite overwhelming specially if you consider, as I have previously posted, that for the first time in 50 years the life expectancy is falling in the USA¹ primarily due to opioid overuse...its an epidemic with some 100,000 deaths in the 7 years from 2005 to 2012 alone and the rate is increasing.

36 is the number of pills administered per person (man, woman and children) for everyone alive in the US in a year.
The FDA Im assuming will fast track us and may even open the trial (end the trial prematurely once good evidence is garnered) from PAR's progression to Phase 3. Lets see. It indeed is of epicdemic proportions the amount of heartache opioids is causing and all it does is mask the pain and does nothing for the root cause - These are my opinions. Always in your interest to DYOR.

References
(1) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-life-expectancy-drops-third-year-row-reflecting-rising-drug-overdose-suicide-rates-180970942/

Drilling into the DEA’s
pain pill database

By TheWashington Post Updated July 20,2019

For the first time, a database maintained by theDrug Enforcement Administration that tracks the path of every single pain pillsold in the United States — by manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies inevery town and city — has been made public.

The Washington Post sifted through nearly 380million transactions from 2006 through 2012 that are detailed in the DEA’sdatabase and analyzed shipments of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, whichaccount for three-quarters of the total opioid pill shipments to pharmacies. ThePost is making this data available at the county and state levels in order tohelp the public understand the impact of years of prescription pill shipmentson their communities.

These records provide an unprecedented look atthe surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic,which resulted in nearly 100,000 deaths during the seven-year time frame endingin 2012.

A county-level analysis of the cumulative datashows where the most oxycodone and hydrocodone pills were distributed acrossthe country over that time: more than 76 billion in all.

Number of pills distributed per person, per year

Average yearly total, by county, 2006 through 2012

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The Post gained access to the Drug EnforcementAdministration’s Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System, known asARCOS, as the result of a court order. The Post and HD Media, which publishesthe Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia, waged a year-long legal battlefor access to the database, which the government and the drug industry hadsought to keep secret.

The version of the database published by ThePost allows readers to learn how much hydrocodone and oxycodone went toindividual states and counties, and which companies and distributors wereresponsible.

Find the data for where you live

West VirginiaAlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDistrict of ColumbiaDelawareFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaPuerto RicoRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming

West Virginia

State-wideBarbour CountyBerkeley CountyBoone CountyBraxton CountyBrooke CountyCabell CountyCalhoun CountyClay CountyDoddridge CountyFayette CountyGilmer CountyGrant CountyGreenbrier CountyHampshire CountyHancock CountyHardy CountyHarrison CountyJackson CountyJefferson CountyKanawha CountyLewis CountyLincoln CountyLogan CountyMarion CountyMarshall CountyMason CountyMcDowell CountyMercer CountyMineral CountyMingo CountyMonongalia CountyMonroe CountyMorgan CountyNicholas CountyOhio CountyPendleton CountyPleasants CountyPocahontas CountyPreston CountyPutnam CountyRaleigh CountyRandolph CountyRitchie CountyRoane CountySummers CountyTaylor CountyTucker CountyTyler CountyUpshur CountyWayne CountyWebster CountyWetzel CountyWirt CountyWood CountyWyoming County

Mingo County

• From 2006 to2012 there were 38,269,630 prescription pain pills, enough for 203 pills per person per year, supplied to Mingo County, W.Va.

•11,390,120 of the pills were distributed by Miami-Luken and 29,548,720 were manufactured by Actavis Pharma, Inc.

•STROSNIDER, KERMIT pharmacy received the highest number of pills.

Distributors

Top five, from 2006 to 2012, in Mingo County,West Virginia.

Miami-Luken

11,390,120 pills

H. D. Smith

8,964,730

McKesson Corporation

7,531,500

Cardinal Health

3,288,130

AmerisourceBergen Drug

2,883,400

Visit this pageon a desktop computer to download the data.

Manufacturers

Top five, from 2006 to 2012, in Mingo County,West Virginia.

Actavis Pharma, Inc.

29,548,720 pills

Par Pharmaceutical

5,612,450

SpecGx LLC

2,171,700

Purdue Pharma LP

222,320

UCB, Inc.

202,600

Visit this pageon a desktop computer to download the data.

Pharmacies

Top five, from 2006 to 2012, in Mingo County,West Virginia.

STROSNIDER, KERMIT

13,168,350 pills

HURLEY DRUG COMPANY INC, WILLIAMSON

8,890,370

TUG VALLEY PHARMACY, LLC, WILLIAMSON

8,827,860

RIVERSIDE PHARMACY, GILBERT

1,780,680

ADKINS PHARMACY INC, GILBERT

1,576,200

Visit this pageon a desktop computer to download the data.

The Post believes this is a critically important set of data, which iswhy we are making it public and accessible to readers and other journalists. Wethink there are hundreds of stories within this data set and need your help tounderstand what it means to you and your community. Want to use this data or our findings in yourown work?

There were noprescription pain pill transactions for this county in the data.

The Post analysis shows that the volumes of thepills handled by the companies climbed as the epidemic surged, increasing 51percent from 8.4 billion in 2006 to 12.6 billion in 2012. Yearly county-levelmaps show how the influx of pills spread.

Just six companies distributed 75 percent of thepills — oxycodone and hydrocodone — during this period: McKesson Corp.,Walgreens, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, CVS and Walmart, according to ananalysis of the database by The Washington Post.

Top pill distributors, 2006 through 2012

Click on a column to sort the table.

	Distributor		Percent of market
1	McKesson Corp.	14 billion pills	18.4%
2	Walgreens	13 billion pills	16.5%
3	Cardinal Health	11 billion pills	14.0%
4	AmerisourceBergen	9.0 billion pills	11.7%
5	CVS	5.9 billion pills	7.7%
6	Walmart	5.3 billion pills	6.9%
7	Smith Drug Co.	1.3 billion pills	1.8%
8	Rite Aid	1.3 billion pills	1.7%
9	Kroger	1.2 billion pills	1.6%
10	H. D. Smith	1.1 billion pills	1.5%
11	Anda, Inc	1.1 billion pills	1.5%
12	Kaiser Permanente	880 million pills	1.1%
13	Morris & Dickson Co	880 million pills	1.1%
14	Thrifty Payless Inc	870 million pills	1.1%
15	Eckerd Corporation	780 million pills	1.0%
16	Omnicare Distribution Center LLC	700 million pills	0.9%
17	Kinray Inc	630 million pills	0.8%
18	N C Mutual Wholesale Drug Co	550 million pills	0.7%

Comparing county-level maps of opioid overdosedeaths and pill shipments reveal a virtual opioid belt of more than 90 countiesstretching southwest from Webster County, W.Va., through southern Virginia andending in Monroe County, Ky. This swath includes 18 of the top 20 countiesranked by per-capita prescription opioid deaths nationwide and 12 of the top 20counties for opioid pills distributed per capita.

Number of pills per person per year

Average county yearly total 2006 through 2012

5

75

150+

Opioid Deaths

Cumulative opioid death rate 2006 through 2012

0

15

30+

per 100,000

people

Source: Data compiled by the DEA and CDC and

analyzed by The Post

Number of pills per person per year

Average county yearly total 2006 through 2012

5

75

150+

Opioid Deaths

Cumulative opioid death rate 2006 through 2012

0

15

30+

per 100,000

people

Source: Data compiled by the DEA and CDC and

analyzed by The Post

Number of pills per person per year

Opioid Deaths

Average county yearly total 2006 through 2012

Cumulative opioid death rate 2006 through 2012

5

75

150+

0

15

30+

per 100,000

people

Source: Data compiled by the DEA and CDC and analyzed by The Post

Number of pills per person per year

Opioid Deaths

Average county yearly total 2006 through 2012

Cumulative opioid death rate 2006 through 2012

5

75

150+

0

15

30+

per 100,000

people

Source: Data compiled by the DEA and CDC and analyzed by The Post