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Old 06-07-2016, 11:34 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen View Post
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.
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
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