GREEN BAY, WI (WLUK) – Prescription drug addiction is a serious issue across the entire country, but numbers from the state Prescription Drug Monitoring Program are showing a promising trend in the right direction.
The most recent report shows a 30-percent decrease in the number of opioids prescribed to patients in Wisconsin since the program began in 2015.
In that same time span, there have been 626,405 fewer total monitored prescriptions in the state.
There also has been a thirty-two-percent decrease in doctor shopping alerts.
