Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features news from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI), which has released part II of its recent study on the prescribing patterns of Schedule II Opiods in Workers Compensation. Readers may recall that part one caused a bit of a stir when it presented the point that the top 10% of doctors who prescribe extremely potent, highly addictive Schedule II opioids for injured workers in California account for nearly 80% of all workers’ comp prescriptions for the drugs.
In a follow up to that study, CWCI examined the prescribing patterns for fentanyl, the most potent of the Schedule II opioids, and came up with some interesting conclusions…
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