During the previous decade, California became the poster child for declining opioid use, even as millions of Americans struggled to kick the often deadly addiction.
Now, stakeholders are seeing a possible uptick in prescription drug use in the state despite seeing moderate declines in nearly every other workers’-compensation-related metric, according to officials from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.
“It’s very preliminary and not anything we’ve published yet. It may be related to COVID-19,” Dave Bellusci, WCIRB’s executive vice pre...
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