Doctors caught in painkiller dilemma
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Dr. Daniel Laieta pictured in his office, where all medical records and prescriptions are electronic. (Feb. 20, 2012)
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The prescription painkiller abuse epidemic has left doctors across Long Island with a dilemma over how to sort out patients in genuine need from addicts and criminals.
The Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, said last June that more than 116 million Americans suffer each year from chronic pain, much of it undertreated.
Treating that pain, the chair...
