I’m a union electrician in a red area, and it’s so incredibly annoying to see trucks in the meeting parking lot decked out in Trump stickers.
Like, he literally scams contractors! Famously and as a matter of legal record! He specifically fucks YOU! If went out to lunch with him he would stick you with the bill and steal your wallet!
Try millions, honestly. Overprescription of painkillers has been cut down, but it still happens incredibly often.
I went to the doctor for the flu earlier this year, and ended up walking away with a prescription for 500ml of codeine cough syrup. The dosage was 20ml a day, and the doctor who wrote it said I’d probably be sick for another 2-3 days. Now, I’m not the best at math but those numbers don’t add up!
Because at its peak in 2012 the total number of prescriptions dispensed was more than 255 million with a dispensing rate of 81.3 prescriptions per 100 persons.
1% of 255 million is still 2.5 million Americans who are addicted to dangerous, life-altering drugs. You almost certainly know someone who has a family member addicted to opiates. Addiction is a nightmare, and even if you don’t overdose, it’s extremely expensive and damages your relationships and career. There’s a serious societal cost to that, and something should be done to regulate the pharma industry which preys on the American population in a fundamentally destructive way.
Is it the biggest problem in the world? No, not really. Should we still do something about it? Absolutely!
Overprescription also describes issuing far larger quantities to people than what they need.
“to prescribe (medication) unnecessarily or to excess.” is what comes up when I search the definition.
A large percentage of opiate addicts are people who got handed way too much after some injury, and kept taking them after they healed.