Opioid prescriptions. Statistics vs. reality?

[Survival0200]

I was just looking at the top 300 prescriptions list at https://clincalc.com/DrugStats/Top300Drugs.aspx

I've heard people telling, that you can't get an opioid prescription anymore, because of the opioid epidemic. Even though the list claims that there has been 14,669,103 oxycodone prescriptions being written. So, who gets all those scripts??

 

[deficiT]

Hmmm, I'm not sure. Just read that the US consumes 80% of the worlds opioids, which is just an insane number.