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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
If the typical physician is prescribing 182,600 doses of painkiller per year, then yes it was a 1% drop.
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Just to put some quantitative context here, one pain patient a normal opiate regimen looks like this:
Hydromorphone 9mg Slow Release twice daily, with hydromorphone 2mg 1-2 tablets every 6 hours as needed for breakthrough pain
That's 3600 doses per year for one patient
Edit: And prescribing habits vary wildly from state to state so I'm not sure this data really tells us much. It suggests something, but it doesn't do much not than that