Nearly 1,400 Texans died from opioid-related overdoses in 2016. It’s a growing problem across the state and country, and in response emergency physicians at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas took an unexpected step: They admitted accountability. From there, doctors employed a range of approaches to reduce opioid prescriptions both inside and outside the hospital walls.
Click here to read the opioid abuse statistics in Texas from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Click here to read the opioid prescribing data from the CDC.
