‘Think twice’ campaign could reduce risk of UK opioid epidemic

‘Think twice’ campaign could reduce risk of UK opioid epidemic. A pilot campaign that urged GPs (family doctors) to ‘think-twice’ before putting a patient on opioid medicines was effective in reducing opioid prescribing in primary care, according to the findings of a major study. Although the reduction in the number of opioid prescriptions issued by individual GPs was small, when aggregated together they had a large effect.