A Safer Way to Keep Kids Pain-Free | Kaiser Permanente
Channel: Kaiser Permanente
Date: 2018-12-18

Opioid abuse causes an average of 115 deaths in the U.S. every day. While abuse often starts in childhood, pediatric opioid use has received little attention. Kaiser Permanente developed a program to address this need by reducing the use of opioids after pediatric tonsillectomy.