In light of the failures of prescription monitoring programs among patients with opiate prescriptions, monitoring individual physician prescribing information may shed light on inappropriate opiate ...

Study analyzed a West Virginia policy that tailored duration limits to a patient’s clinical setting Researchers found a 27-57% reduction in prescription length with the tailored policy Additional ...

While prescribing peaked more than a decade ago, in 2012, a legacy effect is still underway, with widespread misuse of synthetic opioids (chiefly fentanyl) replacing their prescribed counterparts as ...

Many states have passed new laws that place restrictions on the duration of first-time opioid prescriptions to help address the opioid epidemic. While most laws are one-size-fits-all, policies more ...