Opinion: A Reaction to DEA's Efforts to Target Pharmacies with 'Unusual' Opioid Prescription Rates

What the article does not tell you is what percentage of the 42,240 deaths are from illegally-obtained prescription versus nonprescription opioids. It avoids elucidating that legitimate, written prescriptions have rapidly declined since 2009; that although heroin use has been on the rise since 2002, it has ...