1/7 Sunday Spotlight: Important read before surgery-> No one goes into an operation hoping to be on opioids a year later. But too often, opioids are excessively prescribed. Up to 75% of patients, if not more, after surgery have leftover painkillers.https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/12/doctors-limit-prescription-opioids-surgery-pain-reduce-addiction-patients-column/2766756002/ …
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6/7 The good news is that reducing surgical opioid use need not compromise patients’ quality of care. Patients and surgeons have many tools to choose from, and the time for such discussions is before an operation.
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7/7 A comprehensive response to the opioid epidemic must consider all of the settings in which these drugs are overused. For many patients, the most important setting is after (or before) they have an operation.
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A reservoir means that patient isn’t abusing them!
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It's not that difficult to get rid of unwanted opiates in your medicine cabinet!! Has not anyone ever heard of flushing them down your toilet? It's not nuclear waste we are talking about here.
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With deadly fake black market fentanyl analogs on the streets pressed into fake pills ppl seeking pills on the streets would be lucky to run into a legit pharmaceutical Percocet, it would save their lives if they get a real pill verses a fake pill
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