ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 6月14日 06時38分

This ER in New Jersey would rather not give you opioids to treat your pain. Since January 4, St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center’s emergency department, one of the country’s busiest, has been using the drugs only as a last resort. Public health experts believe that ER procedures across the U.S. have contributed to a crisis of addiction nationwide. At discharge, patients are often given opioid prescriptions, and since the medication keeps their pain at bay, they seek refills from their primary doctors. Though many never become dependent, others do. So for patients with common types of acute pain — migraines, kidney stones, sciatica, fractures — doctors at St. Joe’s try alternative regimens first. Among them: laughing gas, trigger-point injections, “energy healing” and even a therapy #harp. In 5 months, the hospital has reduced opioid use in the emergency department by 38%. @markmakela photographed Jan Lucas, 75, playing the harp in the ER. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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