Dissecting the new opioid prescribing guidelines The U.S. saw about 165,000 deaths from overdoses of prescription opioid medications between 1999 and 2014. The same time period saw a quadrupling in the number of opioid prescriptions written, even though the amount of pain Americans reported remained virtually unchanged. Read More... May 16, 2016 Public Health guidelines, opiod 0 0 Comment Read More »