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vrijdag 21 december 2018

How the US Opioid Crackdown Harms Pain Patients


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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS | DECEMBER 20, 2018

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In the last decade, hundreds of thousands of Americans died of drug overdoses. By some estimates, nearly half of these deaths have involved prescription opioids.
To stem this crisis, government authorities have mounted aggressive attempts to reduce the use of these medicines.
But a new report describes how policies intended to stem the rise in overdose deaths have also driven harmful cutbacks in opioid prescribing to people suffering from chronic pain who need these medicines.
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