TRENTON, N.J. — There is another opioid crisis happening in the U.S., and it has nothing to do with the overdose epidemic: Hospitals are frequently running out of widely used injected painkillers.
US hospitals grapple with prolonged injected opioid shortage
Less effective pills, alternatives with more side effects used instead
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