EHRs can nudge docs toward prescribing fewer opioids, study finds

Overprescribing opioids, especially to patients new to the drug, can lead to addiction and misuse. The CDC found that 6% of people who receive a one-day supply of opioids for acute pain still take opioids a year later. That increases to 13.5% for people getting a prescription for eight days or more and to ...