Quitting opioids makes no difference to pain levels: OHSU study

A new study from researchers at Oregon Health& Science University casts more doubt on the benefits of opioids to manage chronic pain. What they found is that, on average, patients experience no discernible difference in the intensity of their pain after discontinuing long-term use of opioids. “One of the expectations might be that when people go off opioids, their pain is going to get worse or spike until something better com es along,” said Travis Lovejoy, a corresponding author on the study,…
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