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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
As someone less knowledgeable about the situation, care to explain?
Right now I'm seeing that about 0.5% of Albertans were prescribed opioids last year.
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It's increasing fast. Not sure where your number came from but self reported past year use of opioid analgesics in Canada in 2013 was 14.8%.
This article does a good job of explaining it with some good charts showing the increases
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...service=mobile