25 states, that it found that New York and Louisiana had the highest amount of narcotic use within Workers’ Compensation cases.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a>   A July 2014 report by the CDC indicates that each day 46 people die from an overdose of prescription painkillers in the United States.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a>  Finally, as reported by the CDC in 2007, the costs of opioid abuse totaled “about $55.