STOP Narcotics protocol takes scalpel to opioid prescribing for surgical patients

TORONTO — With the recognition that physician prescribing plays a significant role in Canada’s opioid crisis, a team of researchers has developed a program called STOP Narcotics to dramatically reduce the amount of the painkillers patients are given following some common operations. In a study presented Wednesday at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in Boston, researchers from Western University sh