E-Prescribing and Opioids: A simple solution to a complex problem

In 2016, Roger Winemiller of Blanchester, Ohio lost two children to opioid overdoses. The farmer’s only remaining son, Roger T. Winemiller, has also struggled with opioid addiction for years, at one point spending a year in jail on drug charges. Although Roger is currently in remission, his father worries about leaving him at home alone and is uncertain about his son’s future (1). The Winemillers are far from alone in their struggle with addiction. In the United States, opioid overdoses were responsible for 30,000 deaths in 2015, a number that exceeds both annual deaths from motor vehicle accidents and from HIV/AIDS during the peak of the US epidemic (2). <a href="https://medium.com/health-and-biological-research-news/e-prescribing-and-opioids-a-simple-solution-to-a-complex-problem-330dac98390d">Read More</a>