Here we see the comparison with the AMRO zone (the Americas) which shows the US and Canada prescribe a lot more opioids than any other country in the Americas.
> And what it finds about the United States is jaw-dropping: Even when the list is restricted to the top 25 heaviest consuming countries, the United States outpaces them all in opioid use.
> For example, Americans are prescribed about six times as many opioids per capita as are citizens of Portugal and France, even though those countries offer far easier access to health care. The largest disparity noted in the U.N. report concerns hydrocodone: Americans consume more than 99 percent of the world’s supply of this opioid.
http://www.painpolicy.wisc.edu/opioid-consumption-data
Here we see the comparison with the AMRO zone (the Americas) which shows the US and Canada prescribe a lot more opioids than any other country in the Americas.
And here we compare AMRO to EURO: http://imgur.com/a/bb4wD
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/15/ameri...
> And what it finds about the United States is jaw-dropping: Even when the list is restricted to the top 25 heaviest consuming countries, the United States outpaces them all in opioid use.
> For example, Americans are prescribed about six times as many opioids per capita as are citizens of Portugal and France, even though those countries offer far easier access to health care. The largest disparity noted in the U.N. report concerns hydrocodone: Americans consume more than 99 percent of the world’s supply of this opioid.