Opioid Epidemic Is Driven by Prescribers
WASHINGTON -- Overprescribing is a key reason for the current opioid abuse epidemic, several speakers said here.
"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.
He noted that on average, medical students receive 11 hours worth of education on pain medication and virtually no education on substance use disorders. "That's why our office ... [plans] to call for mandatory education for every prescriber," Botticelli said. "I don't think that 10 years into this epidemic,...
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