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New California Law Targets Doctor Shopping

doctor holding in his hand a shopping cart with a stethoscope inside, depicting the health care industry concept

More than two million Americans suffered from prescription opioid abuse in 2012, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Although there are many legal and institutional factors driving the current opioid epidemic, one of the most damaging is lax restrictions on patients visiting numerous physicians to get multiple prescriptions for opioid painkillers. So-called “doctor-shopping” […]