"Opioid prescriptions" refers to medications that are prescribed by doctors to relieve pain. These medications contain opioids, which are powerful painkillers.
Sentences with «opioid prescriptions»
During this same period — 2012 to 2015 — the rate of opioid prescriptions increased by 9 percent. (health.com)
A number of legislative and policy efforts have also been targeted at limiting opioid prescription and use. (fortune.com)
Of the patients in the study, the ones who received opioid prescriptions later on were more likely to have another overdose than the ones who weren't. (dnainfo.com)