Postoperative inpatient utilization of opioid and opioid-sparing analgesics in the United States hospitals, 2007-2017.

Despite growing awareness of risks associated with postoperative opioid use, we observed no change in postoperative utilization of opioids in US hospitals. Increasing the use of non-opioid pain management approaches could constitute an important target in our efforts to curtail US opioid epidemic.