From 2006 to 2012, there were enough prescription pain pills in Delaware County to provide 42 pills per person per year, reported the The Washington Post.

In those seven years, there were 164,134,934 prescription pain pills supplied to Delaware County.

A Drug Enforcement Administration database that tracks the path of every pain pill sold in the U.S. has been made public.

Nationwide, there have been nearly 380 million transactions from 2006 through 2012, 76 billion pills distributed across the country, the Post reported.

In Delaware County, Enclara Pharmacia in Sharon Hill received the most pills in those seven years, 28,549,335.

Also in the top five were:

• Rios Pharmacy in Morton, 4,042,870;
• Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc., in Brookhaven, 3,738,260;
• Pennsylvania CVS Pharmacy, LLC in Drexel Hill, 3,698,930;
• 1934 Delmar Pharmacy, Inc. in Folcroft with 3,213,450 pills.

Oxycodone and hydrocodone pills account for three-quarters of the opioid pill shipments to pharmacies.

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

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

Read more about the results found in the DEA database here.

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