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. 2019 Jun 13;380(24):2285-2287.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1904190. Epub 2019 Apr 24.

No Shortcuts to Safer Opioid Prescribing

Deborah Dowell  1 , Tamara Haegerich  1 , Roger Chou  1
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No Shortcuts to Safer Opioid Prescribing

Deborah Dowell et al. N Engl J Med. .
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