What is it about?
This is a survey of people with chronic pain who have been treated with opioids, examining the impact on those people when their opioid doses are reduced. The findings show significant negative impact across many areas of functioning.
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Why is it important?
This is one of the very first studies to examine this topic. Many people on opioid therapy are having their doses reduced or eliminated due to a reaction to the opioid crisis.
Perspectives
We have to remember that policies designed to reduce opioid prescribing may succeed in doing just that, but we also need to be examining the impact of those policies on the people involved. In other words, we know what the policies are doing to the pills, but we need to find out what the policies are doing to the people.
Robert Twillman
University of Kansas
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This page is a summary of: Impact of opioid dose reduction on individuals with chronic pain: results of an online survey, Journal of Pain Research, November 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/jpr.s175402.
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