This state leads US to lower opiate prescriptions, according to BCBS report

Mbadachusetts is currently leading the nation in decreasing opioid prescription. illustrated 51% fewer opioid prescriptions written in Mbadachusetts in 2017 than in 2013; Specifically, Bay State physicians wrote 193 opioid prescriptions per 1,000 Blue Cross insured members. The national average is 394 per 1,000 members

This trend follows a shift in prescriptive culture, where physicians are more aware of their prescribing habits, with legislation limiting opioid prescriptions.

"There is no doubt," said Ken Duckworth, MD, Blue Cross Medical Director of Mbadachusetts Blue Shield for Behavioral Health, said The Boston Herald . "We do not hear so much about people going to the emergency room and going with 100 Vicodin."

In 2012, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mbadachusetts launched its program prescription drugs for pain, reducing opioid prescriptions by 60 million "

" Patients often come to us and say, "I want to be with less," Saul Weingart, MD, CMO at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. "Doctors want to manage opioids responsibly and safely, but also on the patient side."

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