40% of primary care clinics will decline a new patient who takes opioids on ongoing basis

(By Anne-Marie Kommers for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Forty percent of primary clinics said they would not accept a new patient who takes daily doses of Percocet, a prescription opioid, for chronic pain from a past injury, according to a study published July 12 in JAMA Open Network.  Continue reading article here…

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