Sentences with phrase «morphine milligram»

The proposal would charge the drug makers 2 cents per what is known as a morphine milligram equivalent.

That number is based on prescriptions by morphine milligram equivalents, a metric that takes into account the strength and dosage of drugs, but the total number of filled opioid prescriptions also dropped by 10.2 % per month, according to the report.

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Also unexpected, the researchers say, were the number of prescriptions that exceeded 50 milligrams of morphine equivalent per day.