Tackling the opioid epidemic: Reducing opioid prescribing while maintaining patient satisfaction with pain management after outpatient surgery

•Implementation of a pragmatic multimodal approach to decrease opioid prescriptions.•Opioid reduction strategies for five common outpatient general surgery procedures.•Education and optimization of non-opioid analgesics and opioid prescriptions.•Patient satisfaction regarding pain control was maintained.•Surgeons can decrease opioid prescriptions and utilize safer alternatives.