Denver—New research from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital has concluded that the combination of opioids and medications with sedating side effects may negatively affect the efficacy of spinal cord stimulation.
Indeed, patients on higher doses of benzodiazepines and morphine equivalent dosing had less pain relief than their counterparts on lower doses of these agents.
As Charles A. Odonkor, MD, an interventional pain medicine fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, in