Opioid Use Reduced By Half In An ER That Has Found Good Alternatives : Shots
Jonathan Milton
It was a muscle spasm and a deep bruise from a subsequent fall that brought  Jonathan Milton   a 43-year-old forklift driver from Jersey City  N.J.  hobbling into St. Joseph's ER one morning in January.
A couple nights earlier   Milton  was at home  lying on the floor and watching TV.  He  accidentally fell asleep on  his  left side. When  he  woke up the next morning   he  could barely get up. From  his  left hip down to  his  leg   he  says  the spasm left  him  feeling "like somebody just came into that room  just kicked me and kept moving." Later at work  when  he  tried to get up into the forklift   he  fell.
"I was so much in pain â tears were coming out my eyes "  he  said as  he  waited in a hospital chair for more instructions from  his  doctors.
 Milton  has come into this ER in pain before.
"I did see from your visit you were here for that shoulder sprain " said LaPietra  after checking the hospital's records about  Milton 's 2011 visit. "You did get opioids. You got Percocet."
It was a muscle spasm and a deep bruise from a subsequent fall that brought   [TGT]    a 43-year-old forklift driver from Jersey City  N.J.  hobbling into St. Joseph's ER one morning in January.
A couple nights earlier   Milton  was at home  lying on the floor and watching TV.  He  accidentally fell asleep on  his  left side. When  he  woke up the next morning   he  could barely get up. From  his  left hip down to  his  leg   he  says  the spasm left  him  feeling "like somebody just came into that room  just kicked me and kept moving." Later at work  when  he  tried to get up into the forklift   he  fell.
"I was so much in pain â tears were coming out my eyes "  he  said as  he  waited in a hospital chair for more instructions from  his  doctors.
 Milton  has come into this ER in pain before.
"I did see from your visit you were here for that shoulder sprain " said LaPietra  after checking the hospital's records about  Milton 's 2011 visit. "You did get opioids. You got Percocet."