San Francisco—Following on the heels of a 2015 inpatient study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, have found that health care providers dispense far more medicine than is necessary to treat pain after pediatric outpatient surgery. They hypothesized that the tremendous amount of unused medications may be contributing to the national epidemic of nonmedical use of prescription opioids.
Myron Yaster, MD
With the national prioritization of treating