News Report | January 13, 2019
Opioids & Non-Opioids For Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Provide Similar Improvements
Opioids for chronic non-cancer pain provide small improvements in pain and physical function. Non-opioid medications were found to also offer similar outcomes.
These findings were reported in “Opioids for Chronic Noncancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” by Jason W. Busse, DC, PhD; Li Wang, PhD; Mostafa Kamaleldin, MB BCh; et al. The researchers conducted a systematic review that included 96 randomized clinical trials, with 26,169 participants, to compare opioids with placebo and nonopioid alternative pain medications for the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. The goal was to determine whether opioids are associated with greater . . .