Descriptive Study of Prescriptions for Opioids from a Suburban Academic Emergency Department Before New York’s I-STOP Act

Introduction: Controlled prescription opioid use is perceived as a national problem attributed to all specialties. Our objective was to provide a descriptive analysis of prescriptions written for controlled opioids from a database of emergency department (ED) visits prior to the enactment of the I-S...

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Main Authors: Ung, Lyncean, Dvorkin, Ronald, Sattler, Steven, Yens, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2015-01-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1362p53p