Patients Just as Satisfied When Surgeons Give Fewer Opioids for Pain – Reuters

Read article - Quotes Richard Barth, professor of surgery, about a study that found that patient satisfaction scores didn't suffer for surgeons who cut their prescribing of opioids for pain by more than 50%. "Our previous research looked at how much opioid was being prescribed and how many patients actually used it," says Barth, who is the study's senior author.