DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out – and it’s horrific

by Beth Mole
July 17, 2019

Between 2006 and 2012, opioid drug makers and distributors flooded the country with 76 billion pills of oxycodone and hydrocodone - highly addictive opioid pain medications that sparked the epidemic of abuse and overdoses that killed nearly 100,000 people in that time period.