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 ...

A dose of hope for opioid withdrawal. The process of getting clean from opioid addiction can bring on intense physical ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established new guidelines on prescribing opioids, it recommended that long-term opioid users be weaned or tapered off pain pills. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

Withdrawal symptoms, including increased muscle tone, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and neuropsychiatric symptoms, can be experienced with opioid administration of 5 or more days; in this case, ...

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, ...