The Shrinking Grey Zone of Postoperative Narcotics in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis: The No-opioid Urologist

In urology, whether a surgeon needs to prescribe narcotics after minimally invasive surgery used to be a grey zone. We no longer believe that it is necessary to give opioids to opioid-naïve patients undergoing minimally invasive urologic surgery, with few exceptions.