A recent study found that New Hampshire reduced opioid prescriptions by 15% last year, the largest drop in the country. How have physicians changed how they prescribe opiods in acute, and chronic care settings?
GUESTS:
- Dr. Richard Barth - Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and Chief of the Section of General Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He conducted a study about the use of opioids for acute care after surgery.
- Dr. David Nagel - A physician who specializes in pain management at Concord Orthopaedics. He is the New Hampshire representative to the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Dr. Nagel is the author of Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain.
- Michelle Ricco Jonas - Program manager for the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.
