Medicine Cabinet Minefield: How old prescriptions drugs are fueling an opioid addiction crisis | Magellan Health Insights

In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calculated that healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers. That is enough for every American adult to receive a bottle of pills.

Medicine Cabinet Minefield: How old prescriptions drugs are fueling an opioid addiction crisis

by Magellan Health Insights

November 7, 2016 Addiction, Epidemic, Magellan, Magellan Healthcare, Opiate, Opioid, Prescription Drugs