Texas emergency departments given guidelines for opioid prescriptions

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Texas physicians now have voluntary guidelines to follow when working with opioids in the emergency department.
“There’s been kind of a long-standing history of emergency departments both over treating and undertreating pain,” Dr. Christopher Ziebell, emergency department medical director at Dell Seton Medical Center, said.
“It helps to have guidelines to make sure we get that right, because obviously, if you’re a person who is susceptible to a