Effect of Opioid Reduction on Pain and Function

There is a long history of US clinical experience and published articles regarding the surprising improvement in pain or function with opioid reduction or elimination in chronic pain patients. Most of the articles are of low to moderate quality level since the studies have been performed over decades across several evolving standards of evidence based medicine, and it is difficult to use blinding or control populations. Nonetheless there is medical evidence of improvement on withdrawal of... Effect of Opioid Reduction on Pain and Function
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