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Given the national overuse of opioids and the associated negative effects, it is prudent and essential to find ways to manage pain with fewer or no opioids. We hypothesize that intraoperative administration of intravenous methadone reduces total morphine milligram equivalents per weight used in the 36\u00a0h following surgery. This is a retrospective, single-center cohort study of adult burn patients who underwent a first excision of full thickness burn between January 2019 and January 2021. One group received intraoperative intravenous methadone while the non-exposure group did not. The primary outcome was total morphine milligram equivalents per weight utilized in the 36\u00a0h following surgery. Secondary outcomes included average pain scores in the post-anesthesia care unit and for 36\u00a0h postoperatively, as well as discharge opioid prescriptions. The methadone group contained 104 subjects, and the non-exposure group contained 119 subjects. Poisson regression, with adjustment for covariates, showed that the methadone group required fewer 36-h postoperative opioids (IRR\u2009=\u20090.89, P\u00a0=\u2009.447) and were discharged with fewer opioid prescriptions (IRR\u2009=\u20090.86, P\u00a0=\u2009.363) independent of the age and %TBSA differences. Post-anesthesia care unit pain scores were lower in the methadone group (IRR\u2009=\u20090.91, P\u00a0=\u2009.350), as were 36-h postoperative pain scores (IRR\u2009=\u20090.92, P\u00a0=\u2009.310). These trends toward improved pain control and reduced opioid requirements in patients receiving intraoperative, intravenous methadone did not reach statistical significance. 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