After Hydrocodone Rescheduling, Scripts Up, Pills Down

Denver—The Drug Enforcement Administration’s 2014 rescheduling of hydrocodone-containing medications from Schedule III to II changed both prescription patterns and number of tablets prescribed, according to a single-center retrospective study. In addition, the researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, concluded that the schedule change had a larger effect on the prescribing habits of primary care physicians than at their university outpatient pain medicine