Yale Medicine School: Impact of Changing Landscape for Patients With Cancer Who Are Prescribed Opioids
June 01, 2023
June 01, 2023
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 1 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news:
In response to the opioid epidemic in the United States, interventions to prevent over-prescribing and misuse of opioids were enacted at institutional, state, and federal levels. To assess how changes in the prescribing landscape affected patients, a research team from the Yale COPPER Center examined the rates of both new and persistent opioid prescribing in patients with cancer as well as . . .
In response to the opioid epidemic in the United States, interventions to prevent over-prescribing and misuse of opioids were enacted at institutional, state, and federal levels. To assess how changes in the prescribing landscape affected patients, a research team from the Yale COPPER Center examined the rates of both new and persistent opioid prescribing in patients with cancer as well as . . .