Rising drug prices contributed to a 2.2 percent growth in pharmacy spending for American workers’ compensation payers in 2015, according...
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Most doctors – 99 percent – are prescribing highly addictive opioid medicines for longer than the three-day period recommended, according...
To contain a surge in drug-related deaths in the U.S., state and local governments are pouring money into programs to...
Two Florida laws, enacted to combat prescription drug abuse and misuse in that state, led to a small but significant...
Opioid painkiller addiction and accidental overdoses have become far too common across the United States. To try to identify who...
Overdose deaths involving prescription opioid painkillers in New York State increased from 2003 through 2012, according to a Morbidity and...
Usability barriers dampen participation yet nearly three-quarters who use state databases report prescribing fewer opioids, according to a new survey....
A pair of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will study how opioids are prescribed and dispensed...
Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon told the Texas House Committee on Public Health that the number and cost...
Not prescribing opioids first or as a long-term therapy for chronic, non-cancer pain and avoiding MRIs, CTs and X-rays for...