The NY Times recently reported:

“After years of relentless growth, the number of opioid prescriptions in the United States is finally falling, the first sustained drop since OxyContin hit the market in 1996 … Experts say the drop is an important early signal that the long-running prescription opioid epidemic may be peaking, that doctors have begun heeding a drumbeat of warnings about the highly addictive nature of the drugs and that federal and state efforts to curb them are having an effect.” Continue reading “Why Number of Opioid Prescriptions Written May Not Be as Important as Patient Assessment and Monitoring” →