AUGUST 2019 | Volume 36, No. 8 Doctors Can Change Opioid Prescribing Habits, But Progress Comes In Small Doses By JULIE APPLEBY & ELIZABETH LUCAS When they started practicing Michigan. The researchers published surgical procedures, including medicine, most...
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AUGUST 2019 | Volume 36, No. 8 Doctors Can Change Opioid Prescribing Habits, But Progress Comes In Small Doses By JULIE APPLEBY & ELIZABETH LUCAS When they started practicing Michigan. The researchers published surgical procedures, including medicine, most surgeons say, there details of their work in a letter in the hernia repair, appendectomy was little or no information about just New England Journal of Medicine. and hysterectomy, based how many pain pills patients needed Seven months after specific on guidelines from the after specific procedures. guidelines for certain operations were Michigan Opioid Prescribing As a result, patients often were issued in October 2017, surgeons Engagement Network sent home with the equivalent of reduced by nearly one-third the (Michigan OPEN), a handfuls of powerful and addictive number of pills they prescribed collaboration of hospitals, medications. Then the opioid crisis patients, with no reported drop doctors and insurers. hit, along with studie
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