Dissecting the new opioid prescribing guidelines May 16, 2016 Public Health guidelines, opiod 0 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... Comments are closed.