Researchers tally the physical and financial costs of opioid painkillers' side effects
May 28, 2018 by Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times
The opioid crisis has shown us that prescription painkillers and their illicit counterparts can wreak havoc in American communities. Now researchers have quantified the damage they can do inside hospitals when administered to patients following surgeries and other invasive medical procedures.
More than 10 percent of hospitalized patients who took one or more opioid painkillers experienced a side effect tied to the drug, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery. Fully 93 percent of these patients suffered at least one episode that was deemed moderate or severe.
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