Evaluating short- and long-term impacts of a Medicaid “lock-in” program on opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions dispensed to beneficiaries

Between 2000 and 2015, half a million Americans died from a drug overdose, and the majority of these deaths involved an opioid (57%) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). The rapid escalation in opioid deaths during this period was due to multiple factors, one of which was that previous perceptions and cautions related to the risks and addictive potential of opioid prescription drugs were inappropriately dismissed, and opioid prescribing rapidly escalated (Van Zee, 2009).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research