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    Long-term opioid use rarely starts with surgery, study finds

    by By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Aug 17, 2017 3 minutes

    Don't blame the nation's surgeons for an opiate-abuse crisis that now claims 142 lives daily in the United States. New research suggests that patients leaving the hospital after surgeries or inpatient procedures are rarely the ones whose long-term opioid use started with a doctor's prescription.

    Instead, the patients who most frequently go on to use opioid medications for six months or more got their first prescription for some sort of back pain, or for pain

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