Interesting Statistics From Opioid Prescribing Study

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Other striking findings included specialists being 35% more likely to prescribe an opioid to patients aged 60 to 90 years than to those aged 16 to 29. Findings also showed that they were 22% less likely to give women an opioid prescription than men; 23% more likely to give an opioid prescription to a Medicare patient than one with private insurance; and 30% more likely to hand such a prescription to a Medicaid patient than someone with private insurance.

 

http://www.painmedicinenews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Policy%2B%26%2BManagement&d_id=83&i=June+2014&i_id=1066&a_id=27618

 

meh, going from 6 people per 100k to 12 people per 100k isnt really that much. scary graph isnt scary.

its going to be scary when they eliminate pain pills to people in need.