In rural America, opioid prescriptions continue to flow, new CDC report shows – Los Angeles Times
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In rural America, opioid prescriptions continue to flow, new CDC report shows
Los Angeles Times After years of fitful efforts to get doctors to prescribe fewer opioid painkillers, the nation’s annual dose of the potentially addictive medications remained roughly three times higher in 2015 than it was in 1999, when overdose deaths began their … Opioid prescriptions dropped but remain high, CDC says Opioid prescriptions dropped for the first time in the modern drug crisis Opioid Prescriptions Are Declining — But Not Nearly Enough |
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