Many patients receive prescription opioids during treatment for opioid addiction

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) More than two in five people receiving buprenorphine, a drug commonly used to treat opioid addiction, are also given prescriptions for other opioid painkillers -- and two-thirds are prescribed opioids after their treatment is complete, a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study suggests.

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