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Opioid addiction frequently occurs after exposure to prescribed pain medications. Trauma patients are likely to receive opioids due to injuries and surgeries resulting in high levels of pain. Multimodal analgesia has been shown to decrease opioid consumption postoperatively. A multimodal analgesia order set was implemented with the goal of increasing prescription of multimodal analgesia contributing to decreased overall opioid use. We hypothesized that the multimodal order set would be associated with significantly less opioid utilization without affecting pain scores.