To help combat the opioid epidemic, researchers reviewed almost 25,000 breast reduction patients to find trends among women who continued opioid use after surgery. In this video, Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery," discusses the new research and how the findings can be used to fight this opioid crisis.
Read the January 2020 PRS #PlasticSurgery article, "Initial Opioid Prescriptions Predict Continued Narcotic Use: Analysis of 24,594 Reduction Mammaplasty Patients" by Merola, Calotta, Lu, Lifchez, Aliu, and O’Brian-Coon.
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