Hospitals Grapple With a Painkiller Shortage
A dearth of injected opioids forces the use of less effective pills
by Linda A. Johnson, AARP, June 27, 2018|Comments: 1
Hospitals are facing a shortage of injected opioid pain medications.
There is another opioid crisis happening in the U.S., and it has nothing to do with the overdose epidemic: Hospitals are frequently running out of widely used injected painkillers.
Manufacturing shortages are forcing many doctors and pharmacists to sometimes ration injected opioids, reserving them for the patients suffering most. Other patients get slower-acting or less effective pain pills, alternatives with more side effects, or even sedation.
https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2018/hospitals-shortage-opioid-painkillers.html?intcmp=AE-HEA-R1-C3-ART
