- Opioid prescriptions dropped 12% in 2017, according to a report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.
- The figure is believed to be the biggest decline in nearly 25 years.
- The statistic comes amid a searing epidemic that took more than 42,000 lives in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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