Emergency department opioid prescriptions decreased after legislation in New Jersey

In 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency [1]. Opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled in certain states over the past twenty years, and deaths are expected to rise by 147% from 2015 to 2025 [1]. On March 26, 2019, Purdue Pharma LP paid Oklahoma $270 million in a settlement for a claim of aggressive marketing oxycodone, and this lawsuit is probably the first of more than 1600 [2]. In response to the opioid epidemic, the Executive Office of the United States in March 19, 2018 proposed to cut nationwide opioid prescriptions by one-third within three years [3].

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - August 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Todd Duppong, Alessandro Amato, Michael Silverman, Barnet Eskin, John R. Allegra Source Type: research