Prescription painkiller misuse and addiction are widespread in chronic pain patients
A new scientific review of 148 studies enrolling over 4.3 million adult chronic pain patients treated with prescription opioid painkillers has found that nearly one in ten patients experiences opioid dependence or opioid use disorder and nearly one in three shows symptoms of dependence and opioid use disorder. This review provides a more accurate—and more concerning—rate of opioid misuse than has previously been calculated. It was conducted by researchers at the University of Bristol, and appears in the scientific journal Addiction.
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