Use of Prescription Drugs in Kentucky and West Virginia [???]

February 23rd, 2014

I was reading this piece about the most miserable states in the U.S. when I came across this sentence in the section on Kentucky:

The state’s population was the nation’s most reliant on prescription drugs, with 19.3 prescriptions filled per capita in 2011, tied with West Virginia.

😯

Would that be a world leading statistic? In other words, where in the world are people using more prescription drugs than in Kentucky and West Virginia?

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