Sentences with phrase «chronic opioid users»

Addressing opioid prescribing during the acute care period among those patients not using opioids has the greatest potential to reduce the number of new chronic opioid users and minimize unintended distribution of prescription opioids into communities.

The high proportion of SSDI recipients who are chronic opioid users — in many, at high and very high daily doses — «is worrisome in light of established and growing evidence that intense opioid use to treat non-malignant [non-cancer] pain may not be effective and may confer important risk,» write Dr Nancy Elizabeth Morden and colleagues of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, N.H.

The high prevalence and intensity of opioid use among SSDI recipients parallels the preponderance of musculoskeletal disorders, such as back pain — some type of musculoskeletal condition was present in 94 percent of chronic opioid users.

Some chronic opioid users switch to kratom to wean themselves off of pain pills and ease withdrawal symptoms, says Oliver Grundmann, a medicinal chemist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Not exact matches

A few researchers, like Mao, think hyperalgesia is an underappreciated puzzle piece in the opioid epidemic — a force that can pile on pain, drive up doses, and make it harder for chronic users to come off their drugs.