By Wesley H. Gallagher Opioid-related deaths exceeded 33,000 for the first time in 2015, despite increased efforts to curb the epidemic. Almost half of those deaths involved prescription opioids.1 In a recent press conference, President Donald Trump even officially declared the opioid crisis in America a national emergency. But what can healthcare and government agencies do to turn the tide? One practice contributing to the current crisis is “doctor shopping,” in which patients seek prescription painkillers to feed their opioid addiction, often seeing several doctors simultaneously and filling prescriptions at multiple pharmacies. In an example from a report released by […]