Days' supply of initial opioid analgesic prescriptions and additional fills for acute pain conditions treated in the primary care setting - United States, 2014 - Mundkur ML, Franklin JM, Abdia Y, Huybrechts KF, Patorno E, Gagne JJ, Meyer TE, Staffa J, Bateman BT.

During 2017, opioids were associated with 47,600 deaths in the United States, approximately one third of which involved a prescription opioid (1). Amid concerns that overprescribing to patients with acute pain remains an essential factor underlying misuse,...
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