Are we prescribing our patients too much pain medication? Best predictors of narcotic usage after spinal surgery for scoliosis - Grant DR, Schoenleber SJ, McCarthy AM, Neiss GI, Yorgova PK, Rogers KJ, Gabos PG, Shah SA.

BACKGROUND: Physicians play a role in the current prescription drug-abuse epidemic. Surgeons often prescribe more postoperative narcotic pain medication than patients routinely need. Although narcotics are effective for severe, acute, postoperative pain, f...
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