Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.
Skip to main content
Audiovisual

California doctors alarmed as state links their opioid prescriptions to deaths.

Dembosky A. All Things Considered and KQED. January 23, 2019.

Save
Print
February 6, 2019
Dembosky A. All Things Considered and KQED. January 23, 2019.
View more articles from the same authors.

Policy, practice, and communication strategies have been implemented in an effort to stem the opioid crisis and prescribing activities that contribute to misuse. This news article and accompanying webcast discuss an initiative in California that sends letters to prescribers whose patients have died due to opioid overdose. The piece outlines unintended consequences associated with the practice, including clinician reluctance to prescribe opioids for pain. An Annual Perspective discussed the patient safety aspects of the opioid epidemic.

Save
Print
Cite
Citation

Dembosky A. All Things Considered and KQED. January 23, 2019.

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Related Resources