IU Health Discusses Methods for Combating Prescription Painkiller Abuse

 
 

IU Health Starke Hospital says it has a framework for managing prescriptions written for pain medication.

U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly last week said medical physicians often don’t receive proper training when it comes to writing prescriptions for pain killers. His efforts, alongside Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, are looking to curtail what is seen as an epidemic in the United States with opioid addiction and abuse.
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