Mmes.

Most MMEs were preventable, but no one acted to prevent them.

In calculating days of medication, AP used 50 MMEs as a daily dosage.

About five months ago, his doctor, a pain specialist he prefers not to name, informed Gawin and other patients that she would be tapering everyone below 80 MMEs because she was concerned about running afoul of medical authorities.

While the 438 prescribers in a control group—those who didn’t get a letter—kept prescribing roughly the same amount of opioids each day, those who received the letter reduced their opioid prescriptions within a few months from an average of 72.5 morphine milligram equivalents a day to 65.7 MMEs.

“For the past hundred years,” she writes, “posterity has cared about Mmes. De Chevigné, Straus, and Greffulhe because Proust did. But he cared about them because an entire society did, and how an entire society came to care about them is a tale that has not yet been told.”