Bethesda, MD-(ENEWSPF)- The National Institutes of Health reported Thursday that patient overdose deaths had a direct impact on whether clinicians would prescribe opioid drugs in the future. An NIH-funded study shows clinicians reduced prescriptions following behavioral “nudge,” that they were more likely to reduce the number and dose of opioid drugs they prescribed after learning that one of their patients had died from an overdose from a controlled substance than those not notified, according…
