Legislation was enacted in New Jersey in 2017 to limit opioid prescriptions from 30 days to five days for acute pain in both inpatient and outpatient health care settings. A recent study, conducted at Morristown Medical Center, examined the effects of that law and found it is making a difference.
In an interview with NJ Spotlight News, Angelo Valente, the executive director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, said. “[T]he fact now that we’re seeing less prescriptions being implemented as a result of the law … I think is a real step in the right direction in reversing the trends we’ve seen, unfortunately, for the last decade.”
