Laws limiting the prescribing or dispensing of opioids for acute pain in the United States: A National Systematic Legal Review

Overdose is a continuing public health crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 64,000 Americans died from drug overdose in 2016 – nearly 175 every day. (Hedegaard et al., 2017) Drug overdose deaths – the majority of which are caused by opioids, either alone or in combination with other substances – now kill more Americans than did HIV/AIDS at the peak of that epidemic. (Dowell et al., 2017)
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Source Type: research