The Washington Post: A quarter of adults with sprained ankles were prescribed opioids in the ER, study shows

“Opioid prescriptions written by emergency-room doctors are responsible for a small portion of the vast amount of narcotic painkillers consumed by patients each year. Most prescriptions come from primary-care physicians. There were about 215 million prescriptions for the drugs in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” Read more at The Washington Post