Austin, Texas—Although most of the conversation about the epidemic of prescription opioid abuse centers on chronic pain, opioids also are massively overprescribed for acute pain in children, research shows.
Myron Yaster, MD, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado Denver and an anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado, in Aurora, reviewed research showing that opioids are subject to prescription errors at an alarmingly high rate.
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