As states crack down on doctor and pharmacy ‘shopping’ by people who misuse opioids, a new study reveals how often those individuals may still be able to find opioids to misuse in their family medicine cabinets. For every 200 patients prescribed opioids, one had a family member whose opioid-misuse problem led them to seek the drugs from multiple prescribers and multiple pharmacies.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org