Synonyms for prescriptions
pre·scrip·tions

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   recipes, requirements, orders, ordinances, provisions

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1. Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan:

   They [doctors] have prescribed hundreds if not thousands of opioid prescriptions, most of the time without even seeing the proposed patients, one hundred and fifteen people a day are dying of opioid overdoses. That's more people than are killed in car wrecks.

2. Elizabeth Burch:

   These are the folks that are on the front lines, they’re seeing the same people coming in and they’re seeing the same doctors writing prescriptions.

3. Mike Kelly:

   The surgeon general reframed the discussion [ about the opioid crisis ] to everyone who is at risk, not just people illicitly using drugs, he did n’t just talk about heroin, he talked about the use of opioids for chronic pain. Many of those prescriptions are at doses where patients are at risk.

4. Lindsay LaSalle:

   Almost all of the increases in overdose deaths are attributed to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, not pharmaceutical fentanyl that has been misused or diverted. And we know that because the number of prescriptions for pharmaceutical fentanyl has remained relatively stable over the past decade, whereas seizures of illicitly manufactured fentanyl has skyrocketed, so it really is due to illicitly manufactured fentanyl that is entering the market and that is essentially being mixed with heroin so that Lindsay LaSalle have an adulterated product that people aren't aware of, so their risk of overdose increases substantially.

5. Elizabeth Drew:

   Doctors became very vigilant then about diagnosing pain and prescribing pain medication, and you can see a huge uptick of the amount of opiate prescriptions.