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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, ...

With an estimated 5 million Americans battling opioid use disorder—resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year—a new ...

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 ...

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged doctors to cut back on opioid prescriptions in 2016, Charles LeBaron thought the advice made sense. LeBaron, a physician who was a CDC ...

While the guidelines still say opioids should not be the go-to option for pain, they ease recommendations about dose limits, which were widely viewed as hard rules in the CDC’s 2016 guidance. The new ...