Bitter pills
New guidelines are pushing doctors to curtail opioid prescriptions, even for patients who benefit from them.
By Joshua Blanco
Tags: Metro, opioid epidemic, opioid crisis, opioids, State Question 788, SQ 788, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA, QVIA Institute for Human Data Science Study, Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA, fentanyl, prescription drugs, prescription opioids, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, CBHSQ, Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State University, heroin, S. Blake Kelly, Oklahoma Pain Society, OPS, MME, Senate Bill 1446