OIG: Impact of Prescribed Opioids on Postal Employees Under the Federal Workers’ Comp Program

Posted on June 8, 2019June 8, 2019 by 21cpw

Objective Our objective was to determine the impact of opioids being prescribed to U.S. Postal Service employees through the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) program. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, pharmaceutical companies in the 1990s assured the medical community that opioid pain relievers were not addictive. As…