Opioid Scripts? Colbert Comes in Fourth

Number 4 - Colbert

Number 3 - Franklin

Number 2 - Marion

Number 5 - Winston

Number 1 - Walker

Five counties, all close to home...or perhaps home itself. These rankings are for the entire state, not just North Alabama. Just how sick are we? 

If you live in Colbert County, did you get 85 opioid scripts a year between 2006 and 2012? Let's say you had none; who had your 85? Your pool boy? Your child's teacher? Your minister? These are questions we should be asking ourselves. 

Think about it. If you regularly take hydocodone, wouldn't a physician give you a script to last a month? In other words, you would get 12 scripts a year. Who in the wonderful world of Hunter S. Thompson gets 85 scripts a year? That's more than one a week. 

Rogersville may be the number two town in the state for opioid prescriptions, but at least Lauderdale didn't make the county list. Thankful for small favors?

Tomorrow: Just what pharmacies are filling these scripts?

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