Opioid prescriptions continued to fall in 2017, a year that also saw the first decrease in independent medical review decisions, according to a pair of studies released by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute.
“Opioids remain the most common type of prescription drug used to treat California injured workers with lost-time injuries, but sustained efforts to curb their use are paying off as new data show that in the past decade they fell from about a third of indemnity claim prescriptions to less than a quarter, while there was a concurrent increase in anti-inflammatories ...
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