claim: "nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the united states are in florida."
author: jeff kottkamp
evidence_1: nov 5, 2009 ... quit opiates right now - opiate/opioid florida detox programs ... nearly all of  the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the united states are ... kottkamp said the  state's new prescription drug monitoring system is expected to ...
evidence_2: politifact florida on wednesday, august 11th, 2010. false. kottkamp ... "nearly  all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the united states are in florida.".
evidence_3: oct 3, 2018 ... the state maps portray the rates per year for each of the 50 states and the district  .... which dispense nearly 90% of all retail prescriptions in the united states. ...  hydromorphone, methadone, morphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone, ... u.s.  department of health & human services · hhs/open · usa.gov. top.
evidence_4: mar 12, 2018 ... ... to sell narcotics, and that's very disturbing," said kolodny, who is also the  executive director of physicians for responsible opioid prescribing.
evidence_5: aug 31, 2018 ... from 1999 to 2017, almost 218,000 people died in the united states from  overdoses related to prescription opioids. overdose deaths involving ...