HuffPost — Doctors are discovering that it’s possible to effectively replace all or most opioids with non-habit-forming painkillers, lowering the chances their patients could become long-term opioid users. In the process, they are also starting to solve another problem: the unintended flow of opioid pills from hospitals into communities.
This story is part of Pain in America, a nine-part series looking at some of the underlying causes of the opioid addiction crisis and how we treat pain.