Doctors Lax In Monitoring Potentially Addicting Drugs

Few primary care physicians pay adequate attention to patients taking prescription opioid drugs - despite the potential for abuse, addiction and overdose, according to a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The study found lax monitoring even of patients at high risk for opioid misuse, such as those with a history of drug abuse or dependence.

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