An educational intervention coupled with a reliable option for opioid disposal resulted in a marked increase in disposal of opioids after surgery, for a simple but effective approach designed to help alleviate the ongoing opioid epidemic in this country.
“I think the public is becoming more aware of the opioid crisis,” said Rachael A. Haverland, MD, MS, a minimally invasive gynecologic surgery fellow at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz. “But we noticed that although our patients