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Louisiana health leaders call on doctors to end overprescribing of opioids
Health leaders said 95 percent of long-term opioid users began the road to misuse by taking pain medications prescribed by a doctor. Those experts are now looking at ways to get doctors to change their prescribing methods and look at alternative forms of treatment other than opioids.