What hospitals can do to help keep excess opioids out of communities

Guidelines to limit size of drug prescriptions don’t leave patients with more pain, study finds

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PILL PURGE New opioid prescribing guidelines tested over a five-month period in Michigan kept thousands of opioid pills like these from being unnecessarily doled out, researchers say.

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To halt the misuse of opioids, it may help to slash the number of pills prescribed, a new study suggests.