In 2013 medical care and substance abuse treatment for opioid addictions and overdoses was around 78.5 billion $ - cnn health
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The International Narcotics Control board reported that in 2015, Americans had about 99.7% of the world's hydrocodone consumption - cnn health
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In Dane county, Project Fresh Light and Dane County Human Services; Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse are places for people to get help with abuse of opioids
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Opioid crisis begun from doctors over prescribing of drugs, the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed by doctors steadily increased from 112 million prescriptions in 1992 to a peak of 282 million in 2012
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Opioids are narcotics, which are drugs that affect you physically and mentally they also disrupt pain signals so you canโt feel the pain you are in - cnn health #PathwayPride#LHSExcellence#WeAreLafollette