"The Alabama Medicine Periodical that comes out quarterly from the state board featured a fentanyl discussion in its last publication," James D. Jones, the Dean and Senior Vice President of ACOM, said at the beginning of the event."It highlighted a significant increase in fentanyl related overdoses in the state. An event like this provides helpful and potentially lifesaving information.
The State of Alabama currently prescribes more opioids than any other state. In 2020, Alabamians received 80 prescriptions per 100 people which was a drastic improvement from 2012 when 143.5 prescriptions per 100 people were received. Locally, Houston County received 136 prescriptions per 100 people and Coffee County recorded almost 75 prescriptions per 100 people.
One of the big driving forces behind the opioid epidemic is that the chances of relapse from opioid addiction are significantly higher when compared to alcohol and other drugs. While some overdose on the legal form of the drug, most overdoses can be attributed to illegally manufactured fentanyl that is mixed with other drugs or where its potency is unknown.
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