Opioid misuse and overdose deaths continue to be a serious public health crisis in the United States and prescription opioids have significantly contributed to these deaths.3 A significant increase in prescription opioids correlates with a 15-year increase in overdose deaths.18 The overall national opioid prescribing rate steadily increased from 2006 with a peak in 2012 of 255 million in the number of prescriptions dispensed and a rate of 81.3 prescriptions per 100 persons.4 A 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that more than one third of U.S.
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