Rules Hurt Patients with Pain in Washington State
by Zangani • 10 November 2011 • Pain News
Imagine having such tight regulations on prescribing a class of medications, such as anti-hypertensives, that practitioners stop using them altogether for patients with high blood pressure. In effect, something similar may be happening with opioid analgesics in Washington state where aggressive new pain-management laws, meant to curb opioid overdose deaths, have some prescribers shunning these