Are opioid prescribing rates really driving overdoses?
There very well may have been times throughout our country’s history where opioids have been overprescribed, such as the Civil War era and 2000 to 2010. Of course, determining whether opioid prescribing is actually excessive requires one to quantify an association of opioid prescription rates with some relevant population characteristic (e.g., opioid overdoses per capita). Failing to consider the relationship between opioid prescription rates and any other population characteristic whatsoever …
Are opioid prescribing rates really driving overdoses?
