Emergency department opioid prescribing

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In new research published online by the Annals of Emergency Medicine, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital found that the majority of opioid prescriptions in the ED setting had a low pill count and almost exclusively were immediate-release formulations, not the long-acting medications such as methadone, Oxycontin and MS-Contin, which are more strongly associated with overdoes.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news