Poor, Rural Counties in Eastern, Southern & Western NC have highest Opioid prescription rates (pool)

[UserNamesake]

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastra...orth-carolina/

[hey_guy]

In other news, water is wet

[UserNamesake]

Originally Posted by hey_guy

In other news, water is wet

Yeah... this is a problem, however.

[Jowel]

There is definitely an abuse problem across the state and nation that isn't confined to poor, rural areas.

Part of the explanation is that in the poorer, rural counties a larger proportion of people work in hard, manual labor jobs where they're likely to either be injured or have aches and pains over the long term and be prescribed an opioid. Plus the opioid manufacturers have heavily marketed opioids towards that clientele for years and are just now beginning to be held accountable for doing so.

[MrJones17]

Sucks that this is the way it is for most states. Rural communities can't catch a break.

[hey_guy]

Originally Posted by Jowel

There is definitely an abuse problem across the state and nation that isn't confined to poor, rural areas.

Part of the explanation is that in the poorer, rural counties a larger proportion of people work in hard, manual labor jobs where they're likely to either be injured or have aches and pains over the long term and be prescribed an opioid. Plus the opioid manufacturers have heavily marketed opioids towards that clientele for years and are just now beginning to be held accountable for doing so.

I feel similar to this also it's probably a case of similar numbers in all the other counties but a larger pool

Opoid abuse hits people on the lower end of the SES. These counties don't have a larger pool of people not lower SES so the numbers are scewed

On sheer numbers wake county would have a bigger problem than robeson