From 2006 to 2012, there were enough prescription pain pills supplied to Chester County to provide each resident with 22 pills per year, according to a report in The Washington Post.

The newspaper waged a year-long battle to gain access to a Drug Enforcement Administration database that tracks the path of every pain pill sold in the U.S.

The database, which has been made public, revealed that 75,463,660 prescription pain pills were supplied to Chester County during the aforementioned seven-year period, while approximately 76 billion pain pills were distributed across the country.

The top five distributors of opioid pain pills to Chester County (with the number of pills in parentheses) were:

1. Cardinal Health (15,963,540)
2. McKesson Corporation (15,880,720)
3. AmerisourceBergen (15,409,240)
4. CVS (7,017,700)
5. Rite Aid (4,907,990)

The top five manufacturers whose opioid pain pills landed in Chester County (with the number of pills in parentheses) were:

1. SpecGx (35,912,800)
2. Actavis Pharma (15,652,400)
3. Par Pharmaceutical (10,701,720)
4. Purdue Pharma (5,346,256)
5. Amneal Pharmaceuticals (2,078,400)

The prescription opioid epidemic resulted in nearly 100,000 deaths in America during the seven-year time frame.

The volume of pills handled by companies climbed as the epidemic surged, increasing 51 percent from 8.4 billion in 2006 to 12.6 billion in 2012.

Click here to read more about the manufacturing, shipping, and distribution of prescription pain pills in America in The Washington Post.

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