Doctors are still prescribing just as many opioid painkillers to Americans now as they were in 2010, despite the highly-publicized addiction crisis, new research suggests.
Opioid overdoses killed more than 64,000 people in 2016, and experts largely agree that current crisis is driven in part by over-prescription of the addictive painkillers.
In an effort to curb this trend, prescription drug monitoring programs have been implemented or intensified.
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