Not our fault: Long-term opioid use rarely starts with surgery, study finds
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 08:32
in Health & Medicine
Don’t blame the nation’s surgeons for an opiate-abuse crisis that now claims 142 lives daily in the United States. New research suggests that patients leaving the hospital after surgeries or inpatient procedures are rarely the ones whose long-term opioid use started with a doctor’s prescription....