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State Comprehensive Opioid Prescribing Limits Associated With Reduced Opioid-Related Hospitalizations And ED Visits.
Yanlei Ma, Coleman Drake, Kosali I Simon, Hefei Wen
Published: 202610.1377/hlthaff.2025.00063
Abstract
Drug overdose deaths involving prescription opioids rose by more than 400 percent from 1999 to 2022, partly driven by overprescribing. Following 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, thirty-nine states instituted opioid prescrib…
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