Despite billions of dollars in settlements from drug companies and distributors, thousands of patients still die each year from overdoses of prescription opioids. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, state regulations and quality improvements in health systems may no longer be enough to reduce dangerous opioid prescribing. But authorities have a promising new tool at hand: low-cost letters that apply different amounts of social persuasion to clinicians to adhere to prescribing recommendations, including telling them when a patient has died. As health economists, we separately participated in two recent studies that showed the payoffs from straightforward and in
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