Should Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Include Opioid Overdoses?

Clinicians are continuing to prescribe painkillers to chronic pain patientswho overdose on highly addictive narcotics, a new study found. Drug overdose deaths in the United States skyrocketed to 47,000 in 2014, mainly due to opioid painkillers and heroin,according totheNational Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).There were 18,893 deaths involving prescription opioids in [...]