Must Be Why Everyone On Staten Island Is So Mellow

“Staten Island again tops New York City in painkiller prescriptions per capita”:

Enough prescriptions for the drug were written last year for nearly one in three of the borough’s roughly half-million population, according to data released by city officials this week.

“We are equating this now to the epidemic we saw when crack cocaine was first introduced to New York City,” said District Attorney Daniel Donovan.