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People can taper off opioids without increasing pain. Except that’s a lie.

Study: Reducing Opioid Use for Chronic Pain With a Group-Based Intervention.  A Randomized Clinical Trial Ok, so here we go again. Another study, making headlines, where the researchers are making claims that their own study does NOT support.   The study’s authors are misrepresenting their results,… Read More »People can taper off opioids without increasing pain. Except that’s a lie.

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Opioids for post-op Pain should be “Best Practice”, NOT a last resort

The following American Article talks about promising non-opioid treatments on the horizon for chronic pain, however, of particular note the Author highlights the following: “We now believe that aggressive, appropriate treatment of acute pain after surgery may prevent persistent postoperative chronic pain.” Why has this… Read More »Opioids for post-op Pain should be “Best Practice”, NOT a last resort

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Study: Initial opioid prescription patterns and the risk of ongoing use and adverse outcomes

This is a very large study with 2,021,371 participants. It looked at patients who were prescribed an opioid for pain and examined how many people continued to take them long-term (what they defined as ‘addiction’) (3.17%) and how many experienced an opioid overdose (0.055%). It’s… Read More »Study: Initial opioid prescription patterns and the risk of ongoing use and adverse outcomes

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Study:  Are Prescription Opioids Driving the Opioid Crisis? Assumptions vs Facts

Many current assumptions about opioid analgesics are ill-founded. Illicit fentanyl and heroin, not opioid prescribing, now fuel the current opioid overdose epidemic. National discussion has often neglected the potentially devastating effects of uncontrolled chronic pain. Opioid analgesic prescribing and related overdoses are in decline, at great cost to patients with pain who have benefited or may benefit from, but cannot access, opioid analgesic therapy.