The Washington Post (1/14, Rich, Higham, Horwitz) reports that data from the Drug Enforcement Administration “shows that more than 100 billion doses of oxycodone and hydrocodone were shipped nationwide from 2006 through 2014 – 24 billion more doses of the highly addictive pain pills than previously known to the public.” In July, The Post “reported that the data revealed that the nation’s drug companies had manufactured and distributed more than 76 billion pain pills.” The “two additional years of information – 2013 and 2014 – was recently posted by a data analytics company managed by lawyers for the plaintiffs in a massive lawsuit against the opioid industry.”
Related Links:
— “More than 100 billion pain pills saturated the nation over nine years, “Steven Rich, Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post, January 14, 2020