Gavin: Lawmakers Dictate to Doctors: New Legislative Approaches to Opioids

Amidst all the talk of seven-day initial opioid script limits in New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire (with New Jersey, Connecticut and others likely not far behind), we appear to have missed a piece of legislation that, in my view, represents the single most stringent legal construct for opioid prescribing in the country.   Before we get to Maine's new law, a quick aside on the new approach sweeping the northeastern U.S.: These new limits are extremely helpful, but not the panacea some are making them out to be. A seven-day limit for new scripts (in most states, for ac...