CBS News - ER Use of Narcotic Painkillers Up Almost 50 Percent: Study

Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, M.D., adjunct instructor of emergency medicine, and Jesse Pines, M.D., director of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation, were featured by several media outlets for their research finding a rising number of opioid prescribing in U.S. emergency rooms.

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