A low-cost intervention has been confirmed by USC researchers to make a difference in the opioid epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year: a letter from a medical examiner notifying doctors that their patient has died from an overdose.

The team’s study, published today in JAMA Network Open, shows that the notification letters reduce the number of opioid prescriptions that doctors write for up to a year.

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