Back Pain: Medication and Addiction
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How can we balance the risk of drug abuse with the suffering caused by untreated back pain?
People living with serious back pain have to sort through a lot of mixed messages about opioid or narcotic painkillers.
On the one hand, youve heard stories about the seeming epidemic of addiction to these drugs, like OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin. All those celebrities checking into rehab for painkiller addiction may give you the impression that the lure of these drugs is irresistible, that were all just a few pills away from addiction.
But on the other hand, you might have heard that pain is chronically…
Preventing Avoidable…
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Opioids Now Most Pre…
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Two reports by addiction researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institute on Drug Abuse show a drastic shift in prescribing patterns impacting the magnitude of opioid substance abuse in America. The reports, published in JAMA, recommend a…
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Analysis Of Opioid P…
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Analysis Of Opioid Prescription Practices Finds Areas Of Concern
An analysis of national prescribing patterns shows that more than half of patients who received an opioid prescription in 2009 had filled another opioid prescription within the previous 30 days. This report also suggested…
