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Tanner Adopts New Policy for Improved Approach to Chronic Pain Management

Patients who turn to Tanner Health System’s emergency departments for chronic pain medications will receive help—if not a prescription—from a new pain management policy now in place. As rising levels of prescription drug abuse become a national problem and draw increasing concern from local law enforcement agencies, Tanner hopes the new policy will help both residents who may have an addiction to prescription pain medication and those who are living with untreated chronic pain. “As physicians, we’re goi...