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SOME IN PAIN CAN CUT OPIOIDS AND STILL GET RELIEF

Skilled Pain Care Clinic Blog SOME IN PAIN CAN CUT OPIOIDS AND STILL GET RELIEF

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Some potentially good news for folks taking opioids for chronic pain: It’s possible to slowly reduce the dosage without increasing discomfort, new research suggests.

That’s even true for people who’ve taken the drugs for a long time. One patient in the new study had used opioids for 38 years, the researchers said.

“For some people, long-term opioids are necessary, but it’s pretty well known that there has been a high rate of overprescribing of opioids for chronic pain, and there are tremendous health risks for opioids over the long-term,” said the study’s lead author, Beth Darnall.

“Patients have a lot of fear and concern around opioids. What’s been lacking is a way to reduce these drugs on an outpatient basis, and our study found a potentially viable solution,” said Darnell, a clinical professor at Stanford University.

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