Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers said the study raises questions about the “potential harms of tapering,” but the interpretation is ...

Clinicians may wish to carefully weigh the risks and benefits when considering drug tapering for patients on long-term opioids therapy with stable doses, the results of a new study suggest. This ...

Discontinuing stable, long-term opioid therapy may not be necessary for patients who show no signs of misuse ― and it could even be safer than tapering or abrupt discontinuation, new research suggests ...

Taking long-term opioid users off their prescription painkillers may be harmful, international health experts write in a letter published in Oxford Academic Pain Medicine. 1. Outpatients are rapidly ...

Aug. 3 (UPI) --Rapidly tapering patients off highly addictive opioid pain medications after long-term use at stable doses places them at increased risk for overdoses and mental health "crises," a ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s easy for anyone to forget that there are other large-scale epidemics going on in the world. In the U.S. especially, the opioid crisis rages on despite being ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Opioid tapering was associated with “unintended negative consequences,” including fewer primary care visits, ...

Researchers from the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research examined the potential long-term risks of opioid dose tapering. They found that patients on stable but higher-dose opioid ...

Sarah, a 53-year-old woman, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) 7 years ago and has tried various disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologic therapies to manage her pain, ...

Q: I am going to have a major abdominal surgery. My doctor says it is likely that I will be needing strong pain medications after. My question is about opioids: How long can you take them and not get ...

The updated opioid prescribing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are the first since 2016. The revisions include caution against abruptly stopping or rapidly ...

For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians and patients on the use of prescription opioids to treat short-term and ...