The Bible Belt, a tourniquet: The faces of opioid addiction in Alabama

In a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/dea-pain-pill-database/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2019 report released by the Drug Enforcement Agency</a>, it was found that more than 2 billion pharmaceutical opioids were prescribed in Alabama between 2006 and 2014. The Alabama county with the highest opioid prescription rate was Walker County, with more than 66 million pills being distributed through legal prescriptions. That is about 140 pills per person, per year. The overall rates of opioid prescription have steadily declined across the country since 2014, but the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that <a href="https://mh.alabama.gov/understanding-the-opioid-crisis/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Alabama still had the highest opioid prescription rates in the United States in 2020</a>, with a dispensing rate of 80.4 per every 100 people. <a href="https://medium.com/@ashotintheBright/the-bible-belt-a-tourniquet-the-faces-of-opioid-addiction-in-alabama-526a05e5e542">Click Here</a>