A major U.S. pharmacy benefit manager placed a limit on pain pills in the hopes of reducing the risk of their abuse. Express Scripts, the largest pharmacy drug benefits manager in the United States, created a new program to limit prescriptions for new opioid patients. This program will launch across the entire country as of September 1, 2017. The opioid drug limitations will target new patients and will not apply to cancer patients or those in hospice care. According to Express Scripts, the time has come to take a bold…
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