What Older Adults Did with Leftover Opioids (IMAGE)

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

What Older Adults Did with Leftover Opioids

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Findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging show that most older adults who had received an opioid prescription kept the leftovers, instead of disposing of them safely to reduce the chance of misuse by themselves or others.

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