{"id":138,"date":"2016-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garmerprather.lawblogger.net\/blog\/doctors-urged-to-use-more-caution-with-opioid-prescriptions\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:14:26","slug":"doctors-urged-to-use-more-caution-with-opioid-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/doctors-urged-to-use-more-caution-with-opioid-prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors urged to use more caution with opioid prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we visit our doctor, the hope is that we will leave feeling as good or better than we did when we entered the office. Oftentimes, this means leaving with a prescription for medication.<\/p>\n<p>However, before we receive a prescription from our doctor, it is crucial that he or she understands our condition and how or if certain powerful drugs will help or hurt us. For instance, in recent years, there has been a growing dependence on opioid medication and anti-anxiety medication, which has led to devastating deaths and addiction rates. In light of this, federal health officials are urging doctors to be more cautious and reserved in their prescription of these powerful drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The concern with these drugs is that they are very addictive and when used together, they can have fatal consequences because of their combined effect on a person&#8217;s central nervous system. Numerous stories of fatal overdoses and &#8220;slow suicides&#8221; are examined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/national\/wp\/2016\/08\/31\/2016\/08\/31\/opiods-and-anti-anxiety-medication-are-killing-white-american-women\/?wpisrc=fl_unnatural&#038;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this report in The Washington Post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/doctors-urged-to-use-more-caution-with-opioid-prescriptions\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Doctors urged to use more caution with opioid prescriptions\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we visit our doctor, the hope is that we will leave feeling as good or better than we did when we entered the office. 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