Opioid analgesics continue to be the most widely used category of prescription drugs in California's workers' compensation system, despite growing awareness of potential problems caused by the additive drugs, according to a study released Thursday by the California Workers' Compensation Research Institute.
According to the CWCI study, opioids made up 27.2% of total prescriptions in the state workers' comp system in 2014, about the same share as in 2005. That percentage dropped from a peak of 31.5% in 2010, but opioids still account for a larger share of prescriptions in w...
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