A prescription drug monitoring program, data sharing, and upholding states' rights under the United States Constitution.

Abuse of physician prescribed opioids contributes to health and economic burdens associated with dependency, overdose, and death. Since the 1900s, the United States (U.S.

The impact of reducing opioid unit dose quantities on perioperative utilization and pain scores for laparoscopic cholecystectomies.

At our institution, reductions to hydromorphone and fentanyl unit dose quantities provided us with a unique opportunity to study opioid utilization. A retrospective study examining effects of changes in opioid unit dose on intra-operative and postoperative opioid utilization in patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The study included three arms: the predosage change (n = 254), fentanyl only change group (n = 102) and the postdosage change arm (n = 254).