Only Modest Changes in Opioid Prescribing and Addiction Treatment After Overdose for Pa. Medicaid Recipients
August 22, 2017
August 22, 2017
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22 -- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center issued the following news release:
Pennsylvania Medicaid recipients who suffer an opioid or heroin overdose continue to be prescribed opioids at high rates, with little change in their use of medication-assisted treatment programs after the overdose, revealed a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Pennsylvania Medicaid recipients who suffer an opioid or heroin overdose continue to be prescribed opioids at high rates, with little change in their use of medication-assisted treatment programs after the overdose, revealed a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Our . . .