Chaim Miller, BA Asif Ilyas, MD, MBA, FACS Takeaway Points: The CDC categorized the past 20 years of drug overdose data into 3 waves to...

JOSEPH LABRUM, IV, MD ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA SUMMARY POINTS Hand Surgery is a high volume surgical field with historically excessive...

DANIEL CALEM, BA MARK KURD, MD SUMMARY POINTS Spine surgery has historically relied on the routine use of opioids, with spine surgery...

BROCK BAKEWELL, MPH ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS Rothman physicians have reduced the number of opioid prescriptions from 2015...

JENNA ADALBERT, BS SOMMER HAMMOUD, MD SUMMARY POINTS Orthopaedic sports medicine sub specialists perform a wide variety of anatomic...

PANKTI ACHARYA, MPH ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS Formal Opioid-prescribing education of orthopaedic surgical residents...

JENNA ADALBERT, BS ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS In medical school curricula, active methods of opioid prescribing instruction...

TAYLOR PASKEY, BS ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS Orthopaedic Surgeons write 5.8% of all opioid prescriptions, behind: Family...

ZACHARY HERMAN, BS ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS Opioid mortality is defined as a death related to opioid use, be it...

ZACHARY HERMAN, BS ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS Understanding opioid prescribing habits and patient utilization of opioids is...

TAYLOR PASKEY, BS ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS Despite recent decreases in opioid prescribing, significant variation in...

DUNCAN VAN NEST, BS ASIF ILYAS, MD, MBA, FACS SUMMARY POINTS Opioids receptors are located throughout the body and are activated by...