Medicare Is Cracking Down on Opioids. Doctors Fear Pain Patients Will Suffer. by JAN HOFFMAN


By JAN HOFFMAN

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.

Published: March 26, 2018 at 08:00PM

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