Medical Xpress November 4, 2025
Since the height of the opioid epidemic, doctors have been prescribing fewer of these medications. A new study from UC San Francisco shows that this trend extends to nursing home residents who may need opioids to manage chronic pain.
Analyzing data on nearly 3 million U.S. nursing home residents between 2011 and 2022, researchers found the probability of receiving an opioid declined across the board, even for nursing home residents with severe chronic pain.
The study, which uses data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is the first to examine opioid prescribing trends in nursing homes and to examine these trends by race, ethnicity, and pain level. It appears in JAMA Internal Medicine.
In 2016, the Centers...
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