Calling it a “large-scale humanitarian issue,” a group of pain medicine experts has written a commentary expressing concern over the practice of forced opioid tapering for the 18 million chronic pain patients receiving long-term opioid therapy.
The authors of the piece (Pain Med, pny228) also spoke out against opioid tapers involving “aggressive opioid dose reductions over a defined period,” even in those occurring over an extended period of time.
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