What’s the Link Between Prescription Size and Opioid Abuse?

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What is the effect of the size of that initial opioid prescription for elective joint arthroplasty patients and the likelihood of opioid refills?

A team from the University of Michigan studied that question and the results of their work, “Association Between Initial Prescription Size and Likelihood of Opioid Refill After Total Knee and Hip Arthroplasty,” was published in the November 6, 2022 edition of The Journal of Arthroplasty.