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Patients may be at higher risk of overdose when opioid therapy for pain is discontinued

Discontinuing opioids prescribed for chronic pain was associated with increased risk of overdose, according to a new study from the BC Centre on Substance Use and University of British Columbia-Okanagan published today in PLOS Medicine

Dec 1, 2022

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