Primary care physicians and the opioid epidemic: what can be done?
What role do primary care providers play in the opioid crisis that has killed thousands of Pennsylvanians?
This week, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines on prescribing opioids like OxyContin and Percocet.
Pennsylvania has its own set of voluntary recommendations too.
Again, these are all voluntary.
So will health care professionals cut back on the number of opioid prescriptions?
And what other options do they have to treat pain?
We’ll talk it over with Dr. Chris Echterling, a medical director with WellSpan, and Dr. Robert Rodak, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians.
