Medicare Is Cracking Down on Opioids. Doctors Fear Pain Patients Will Suffer. Opioids and Opiates, Pain-Relieving Drugs, Medicare, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)
By JAN HOFFMAN from NYT Health https://nyti.ms/2ukfcAk
Officials are close to limiting doses of the painkillers, but doctors say doing so could put older patients into withdrawal or lead them to buy deadly street drugs.