80% of opioids pain pills($24 Billion)-consumed-by USA. Sales is not a problem glad you posted, just perfect for Biel knee problem in USA effects 110 million, foot problem over 100 million people. If you only knew how many ordered was received yesterday LMAO.
Americans consume vast majority of the world's opioids
Dina Gusovsky | @DinaGusovsky
Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016 | 9:13 AM ET
CNBC.com
Prescription pills in a yellow bottle The big business of pain
Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016 | 7:00 AM ET | 05:51
Americans are in more pain than any other population around the world. At least, that's the conclusion that can be drawn from one startling number from recent years: Approximately 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the United States.
Pain drugs are the second-largest pharmaceutical class globally, after cancer medicines. "There was about 300 million pain prescriptions written in 2015," Irina Koffler, senior analyst, specialty pharma, Mizuho Securities USA, told CNBC.
The 300 million pain prescriptions equal a $24 billion market, Koffler said, but it's not a market evenly divided around the globe. Rampant use of opioids in the United States, which represents only 5 percent of the global population, points to a larger divide between affluent nations and the rest of the world when it comes to prescription painkillers.
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