HMO Doctors Take Pains To Slash Opioid Prescriptions

(By Sam Quinones for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)

On a summer afternoon in 2009, eight Kaiser Permanente doctors met in Pasadena to review the HMO’s most prescribed drugs in Southern California. Sun blasted through the windows and the room had no air conditioning, but what unsettled the doctors most were the slides a pharmacist was presenting. Continue reading article here…

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