How does the US opioid epidemic usage differ from the world?
Over the past decade, the number of opioid prescriptions doubled, mainly to the misuse of oxycodone from 574 users to 2,500 users in the Netherlands, according to The Lancet Public Health. However, the misuse of opioids in the Netherlands is considerably lower than the USA and Canada.
Back in 2018, Germany came in second place with 29,000 dosages per 1 million of narcotic users, and Canada came in third.
The death rate from opioid overdose in Australia over the past
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decade has doubled, according to Medical Xpress. Australia has failed to learn from the United states’ mistakes and is not taking action. Overdose related deaths skyrocketed from 439 in 2006, to 1,100 in 2016. Over the past years Australia has been prescribing a substantial number of opioids to patients. Therefore 3 million Australians are getting at least one opioid prescription a year.
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