Sentences with phrase «dose opioid users»
Colvin says she already sees strong evidence of hyperalgesia in high - dose opioid users at the clinic where she works.
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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.
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.
TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Patients who are first - time users of pain - killing opioids should be prescribed a small dose without refills to reduce the risk of long - term use and possible addiction, a new study suggests.