Health insurance companies would for the first time be allowed to access a state government database of citizens’ prescriptions under a new health care proposal being readied by a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
According to the CDC’s WONDER database, pain pills by themselves accounted for less than 6% of opioid related deaths and no more than 4% of all drug-related deaths nationally. Here in New Hampshire, drug overdose death data reported on April 15, 2021.
The May 23 Sunday Valley News story “Hoping for relief: Strafford woman navigates cancer, chronic pain as the opioid crisis complicates treatment” included New Hampshire drug overdose death numbers for the year 2020 without providing a breakdown of.