A small number of surgical procedures, including orthopedic procedures and cesarean delivery, account for a large proportion of opioid prescriptions dispensed after surgery, according to a study published online June 26 in JAMA Network Open. Dominic Alessio-Bilowus, from Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined the surgical procedures accounting for the highest proportion of opioids dispensed to adults after surgery in the United States in a cross-sectional analysis of the 2020 to 2021 Merative MarketScan Commercial and Multi-State Databases. Data were included for 1,040,934 surgical procedures performed: 43.9 and Read More