Opioid Prescribing Practices of Neurosurgeons: An Analysis of Medicare Part D

The CDC has declared that the U.S. is amidst a continuing opioid epidemic, with drug overdose related death tripling between 1999-2014. Among the 47,055 overdose related deaths that occurred in 2014, 28,647 (60.9%) of them involved an opioid.

Source: World Neurosurgery - December 15, 2017 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Syed I. Khalid, Owoicho Adogwa, Aladine A. Elsamadicy, Ankit I. Mehta, Joseph Cheng Tags: Original article Source Type: research