San Diego—“It’s a national catastrophe.” That’s how Myron Yaster, MD, the Richard J. Traystman Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, described the nation’s overprescribing of opioids to pediatric patients, an epidemic whose myriad ripple effects may ultimately contribute to the growing problem of nonmedical use of prescription