What do you know about They Gave Me Oxy. I Didn’t Want It. Now What?
 

“Stay ahead of the pain’’ is a mantra you hear often when you are recovering from orthopedic surgery. Essentially it means that you should not get complacent; you should take painkillers even if you feel fine because the demon now in recess will return.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, doctors wrote opioid prescriptions at a rate of 37.8 per 100 people in New York in 2017. That figure may seem astonishing until you discover how conservative it is compared with other states. The ratio in Maine exceeds 55; in Tennessee it is 94.

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