How Hospitals are Fighting on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis

How Hospitals are Fighting on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis: No hospital is safe from the effects of an opioid epidemic that’s raging across America, and neither is any patient. An estimated 44 people die every day in the U.S. from overuse of powerful prescription painkillers, from teens to senior citizens, in isolated rural towns and large metropolises alike.