First Script saw continued decreasing opioid trends across our retail and mail-order programs in 2019, even while overall prescription trends saw a slight upward shift in utilization per claim and cost per claim. Even with these changes, opioids remain the #1 therapeutic class by usage and cost, however, 2019 marked the largest reduction of the last 5 years in the percentage of opioid scripts with greater than or equal to 90 MED. View the video blog here.
As 2020 opened, a persistent and tragic opioid overdose epidemic was near the front of a list of national concerns in the US.
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The first half of 2020 has been unprecedented. There has been some good, a lot of bad and even some ugly.
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With a continued focus on the harmful effects of the opioid epidemic, oversight of opioid prescribing and monitoring of use t