Nearly 1% of opioid prescriptions written by surgeons and dentists in the United States were filled more than 30 days later, a potential sign of prescription opioid misuse, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open (2022;5[5]:e2214311).
“While a low percentage, this still translates to hundreds of thousands of prescriptions per year, given the frequency of opioid prescribing by U.S. surgeons and dentists,” said principal investigator Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD,