The most effective treatment to care for people with opioid use disorder are opioid agonist therapies (OAT), including medications like methadone or buprenorphine. But interrupting this therapy may result in severe symptoms ...
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)—a challenging autoimmune disease most common in women of childbearing age—can cause many problems in the body, including chronic pain.
Jun 28, 2023
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Approximately 7 million adults in the U.S. are living with opioid use disorder (OUD). Yet a new Northwestern Medicine study that measured residential treatment use among Medicaid enrollees across nine states found only 7% ...
Apr 13, 2023
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An online "e-health" program helped more people with chronic pain reduce their opioid medications and pain intensity than a control group that had only regular treatment in a recent clinical study.
Apr 3, 2023
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In a synopsis of the latest U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) clinical practice guideline, published online Feb. 14 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, updated recommendations are ...
Feb 14, 2023
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Opioid-related overdose is now a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and Canada. A study published December 1 in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Mary Clare Kennedy at University of British Columbia, ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Getting a new knee or hip can be life-changing, but first you have to get through the recovery after surgery.
Oct 21, 2022
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New analysis finds more than half of U.S. adolescents and young adults with sarcoma, a type of cancer in the bones or soft tissues, are often prescribed opioids to treat their pain. Nearly one-quarter of these patients continue ...
May 23, 2022
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A comprehensive assessment of the benefits of medical cannabis for cancer-related pain found that for most oncology patients, pain measures improved significantly, other cancer-related symptoms also decreased, the consumption ...
May 20, 2022
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy may help people being treated for opioid addiction reduce their methadone dose and better manage pain and withdrawal symptoms, according to a pair of studies led by Washington State University scientists.
Apr 11, 2022
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