Oregon health leader applauds new opioid guidelines that target biggest prescribers. (Hint: They're ...

Blame for the over-prescribing of opioids has focused squarely on doctors. But for patients between the ages of 10 to 19 years old, the leading prescribers of narcotic painkillers are not doctors, but dentists, by a big margin. Dentists prescribed nearly 31 percent of opioids, followed by primary care doctors ...