Reprinted from June 2023 Supported by PACIRA BIOSCIENCES, INC. The Impact of COVID-19: Migrating Procedures to Outpatient Surgery This article is based on a symposium held on October 18, 2022, in San Diego, California, at the annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. declines in health, widening health disparities, and economic and emotional turmoil all contributed to the surge in opioid mis.use during the pandemic.2-6 Surgeons play an important role in controlling access to
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