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National Farmers Union: New Data Highlights Continuing Need to Fight Opioid Addiction in Rural Communities
July 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The National Farmers Union issued the following news release:

New data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration shows that rural communities have the highest death rates nationwide from opioid prescriptions, more than three times the national average.

A previously unreleased database from DEA tracking prescription painkillers showed that the highest per-capita opioid death rates from 2006 to 2012 were in rural communities in West Virginia, Ke . . .

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