Sentences with phrase «term opioid user»

Overall, about one in every 48 Medicare patients prescribed an opioid in the study were likely to become a long - term opioid user.

Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high - prescribing doctors are more likely to become long - term opioid users, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Further study of data from more than 243,000 patients aged 45 and younger found that those who were given two prescription fills were 2.25 times more likely to become long - term opioid users than those who received one prescription.

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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.

Long - term users of prescription opioids might be dependent on the drugs, but not necessarily addicted.

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.