Mapping 70 billion pain pills by pharmacy location
<p>Half of the 70 billion opioid pills distributed across America were handled by only 15 percent of the 83,000 pharmacies in this country. This and other facts were brought to life this month <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/the-opioid-crisis-15-percent-of-the-pharmacies-handled-nearly-half-of-the-pills/2019/08/12/b24bd4ee-b3c7-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">in an interactive data visualization</a> from The Washington Post.</p>
<p>The article is part of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2019/07/20/opioid-files/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Opioid Files</a>, an ongoing WaPo investigation into the crisis inspired by a previously unreleased dataset from the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Investigative and Graphics teams have been posting maps with an increasing granularity of the data.</p>
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