The state health department also began shortening the process for disciplining physicians, reducing the typical time between an arrest and a licensing action from 134 to 19 days.
These approaches seem to be working. The state recently announced a 17 percent drop in purchases of oxycodone by medical practitioners and pharmacies from January to May.
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