Even though there has been some progress made on many fronts in the fight against opioid misuse and abuse, numbers are showing Kentucky’s opioid prescription dispensing rates are still among the highest in the country. Opioid dispensing rates have declined across the board – and declined steadily from a national rate of 46.8 opioid prescriptions dispensed per 100 persons in 2019 to a rate of 39.5 in 2022 (the most recent year for which data is currently available), according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.