Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and other colleagues from Comagine Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy recently published an article,"Prescription and Prescriber Specialty Characteristics of Initial Opioid Prescriptions Associated with Chronic Use" at the Journal of Pain Medicine. They found that 8.6 percent of opioid-naıve individuals who received an opioid prescription developed chronic use. This rate varied depending on the specialty of the provider who wrote the prescription. Progression to chronic opioid use was higher in anesthesiology and neurology specialties and lower in ophthalmology compared to internal medicine.