Sentences with phrase «term opioid therapy»

«He was on long - term opioid therapy for some back pain, and his family was a little bit concerned he was abusing his medications,» Hall said.

There is a shortage of high - quality evidence demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of long - term opioid therapy for the management of chronic pain, and to date, no large - scale studies have assessed strategies for managing and reducing chronic opioid use in real - world clinical settings.

«This project was selected for PCORI funding for its potential to fill an important gap in our understanding of long - term opioid therapy and to give people living with chronic pain useful information to help them weigh the effectiveness and safety of their care options,» said PCORI executive director Joe Selby, MD, MPH.

As Professor Grace says: «I hope that it'll get people to really question what the benefit of long - term opioid therapy might be.»

Watkins» work with glia, for example, has indicated that long - term opioid therapy may have an effect similar to that of chronic inflammation, causing glial cells to release an excess of cytokines that actually reduce the drug's effectiveness in blocking pain.

«These guidelines provide recommendations for monitoring patients with chronic pain on long - term opioid therapy, such as frequent visits and urine drug screening, but provide little guidance on how to actually address concerning behaviors.»

Patients receiving long - term opioid therapy for chronic pain sometimes demonstrate challenging and concerning behaviors, such as using more opioid medication than prescribed or concomitant alcohol or drug use.

«Due to increasing concerns about the risks of long - term opioid therapy for chronic pain and limited evidence as to their benefit, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in 2016,» said Merlin, who completed this research while at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

The researchers will ask each participant to log into a private Facebook group, where they can share posts, comments, pictures, and private messages among themselves, as well as with the eight peer role models who are also on long - term opioid therapy.

Editorialists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) caution that decisions to discontinue or reduce long - term opioid therapy should be made together with the patient.

Researchers at the Veterans Health Administration conducted a systematic review of 67 published studies to determine the effectiveness of strategies to reduce or discontinue long - term opioid therapy prescribed for chronic pain and the effect of dose reduction or discontinuation on important patient outcomes.

Dose reduction may improve pain, function, and quality of life for patients prescribed long - term opioid therapy for chronic pain.

Approximately 10 million U.S. adults are prescribed long - term opioid therapy for chronic pain.

Expert guidelines recommend reducing or discontinuing long - term opioid therapy when risks outweigh the benefits, but evidence on the effects of dose reduction on patient outcomes had not been systematically reviewed.

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Last year, the CDC recommended that patients be tested when they begin opioid therapy and that long - term users be checked annually, though it left further testing decisions to the discretion of the health practitioner.

The goal of this activity is to educate pharmacists and pharmacy technicians about identifying the risks and benefits of opioid therapy and improving its long - term safety.