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    Jan 26, 2020 3 minutes

    Doctors prescribe opioids even to small children

    Doctors are prescribing opioids—the powerful and highly addictive painkillers—to young children. Around 60 percent of children who have their tonsils removed are being given the drugs, a new study has discovered.

    The children are being given an average of 48 doses of opioids after a tonsillectomy, say researchers at the University of Michigan, who reviewed case records of 15,793 children who had the operation in a private clinic.

    Some 60 percent of these children, who were between one and 18 years old, were given opioids. The painkillers are thought

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