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Richard Burr: My observation would be opiates are prescribed a lot of times because that is what the patient came in and asked for.

On the recordApril 29, 2014
My observation would be opiates are prescribed a lot of times because that is what the patient came in and asked for.
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Richard Burr
Republican · North Carolina

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Burr comments on the reasons behind opiate prescriptions.

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