{"id":9922,"date":"2018-03-23T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:45:34","slug":"graphic-opioid-painkiller-is-top-prescription-in-11-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9922","title":{"rendered":"Graphic: Opioid Painkiller Is Top Prescription In 11 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jenny Gold for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Americans fill about\u00a04.5 billion prescriptions\u00a0each year, at a cost of more than\u00a0$323 billion. But what are we actually buying? In 11 states, the top prescriptions are opioid pain pills that are mixtures of acetaminophen and hydrocodone (brand names Vicodin and Norco), according to\u00a0new data from GoodRx, an online prescription cost service. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/graphic-opioid-painkiller-is-top-prescription-in-11-states\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=61553237&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9W-n6MLD1taCrKGtUgO1w3Flydllbv6bDYdry1LBaioEZ87D5AkCg8Bz_GzzURPeTcqysmF3BqLau6OXgex2i9jPMQwg&amp;_hsmi=61553237\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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