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Key Points The diagnosis of pharyngitis requires excellent history and physical documentation and appropriate culture and laboratory testing. The majority of sore throats in children are caused by viral pharyngitis, which will not improve with antibiotics or tonsillectomy. Corynebacterium diphtheriae…

Background Because of the dramatic increase in the number of opioid related deaths since 1999, the opioid epidemic was declared a “public health emergency” in the United States on October 26, 2017. The opioid abuse epidemic arose in part from…