As Opioid Death Toll Worsens, California Doctors Will Soon Be Required To Perform Database Checks

Kristina Davis, Los Angeles Times: Local
Sun, 09/16/2018 - 6:35pm

By the time the 59-year-old woman overdosed in the late summer of 2013, she’d been given 75 prescriptions by three primary care doctors, a psychiatrist and a pain specialist in one year. Her deadly cocktail: an opioid painkiller, a sleeping aid and anti-anxiety medication. Had any of the five physicians...

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Topics: opioid doctors

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