Enlarge this image About a decade ago, the FDA started requiring drugmakers to add black box warnings to labels and prescribing information…
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Enlarge this image Ashley Copeland (right) talks to her mom Sue Iverson in the Swedish Medical Center emergency department, near Denver. Copeland…
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Questioning A Doctor’s Prescription For A Sore Knee: 90 Percocets
by Michelle Andrews November 22, 2017Enlarge this image Doctors often prescribe more opioid painkillers than necessary following surgery, for a variety of reasons. Education Images/UIG via Getty…
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Enlarge this image The HHS inspector general found that some 22,000 Medicare Part D beneficiaries seem to be doctor shopping for opioids…
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Enlarge this image In a new report, the CDC says U.S. doctors are prescribing fewer opioids than they were in 2010, but…