Surgeons are among the highest prescribers of opioids, accounting for 56% of new starts of
opioids in Ontario in 2016. 1 At times we may not have an appropriate systems-based …

More than 100 million Americans experience chronic daily pain. 1 Moreover, it is estimated
that more than 65.9 million outpatient surgical procedures are performed in the United …

Opioids are addictive, and prolonged opioid use has negative consequences for individual
patients and public health more broadly. 1 In 2020, more than 80 000 deaths were attributed …

The US Health and Human Services Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task
Force initiated a public–private partnership which led to the publication of its report in 2019 …

In this article, we describe the implementation of a TPS at a tertiary medical center. Our TPS
model involves a multidisciplinary team of anesthesiologists, pain psychologists, surgeons …

Increased utilization of prescription opioids for pain management has led to a nationwide
public health crisis with alarming rates of addiction and opioid-related deaths. In the surgical …

In an accompanying article by Dickerson et al, 1 principles for perioperative pain
management in patients with chronic pain, opioid tolerance, and substance use disorder …

Between 1999 and 2008, the rate of overdose deaths from prescription opioid pain relievers
(OPR) in the United States increased 4-fold. 1 This alarming increase in OPR-related death …

In October of 2017 a public health emergency was declared by the Department of Health
and Human Services due to the recognition of an opioid epidemic in the United States. 1 …

INTRODUCTION The opioid epidemic is a major public health crisis in the United States,
costing the health care system more than $1 trillion since 2001 and projected to exceed …