Study: Americans with mental health disorders prescribed opiates at high rate

Editor’s note: This story by Nora Doyle-Burr first appeared in the Valley News.Lebanon — A research team including a Dartmouth-Hitchcock anesthesiologist has found that doctors are much more likely to prescribe opioids for patients with depression and anxiety than those who do not have a mental illness.
The findings, which appear in the July issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, show that nearly 19 percent of the 38.6 million American adults with mental healt