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Effects of state opioid prescribing laws on use of opioid and other pain treatments among commercially insured U.S. adults.
March 30, 2022
McGinty EE, Bicket MC, Seewald NJ, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2022;175(5):617-627.
Prior research has found that unsafe opioid prescribing practices are common. This retrospective study explored the association between state opioid prescribing laws and trends in opioid and nonopioid pain treatment among commercially insured adults in the United States. Findings suggest that these laws were not associated with statistically significant changes in prescribing outcomes, but the authors note that some of these estimates were imprecise and may not be generalizable to non-commercially insured populations.
