Opioid Epidemic Is Driven by Prescribers – Several Called for Mandatory Provider Education

October 9, 2015 By: SRHN

“‘While our office wants to ensure that those patients who need access to pain medication get it, we know all of the morbidity and mortality associated with this epidemic can be tracked to the vast overprescribing of prescription drugs in the United States,’ Michael Botticelli, director of the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy and a recovering addict, said at a briefing here Wednesday sponsored by the Hazelden Betty Ford Institute for Recovery Advocacy and the National Council for Behavioral Health.”

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MedPage Today – 10/8/2015

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