Abstract

The topic of prescribing opioids for chronic non cancer pain is going through troubled times. A recent JAMA paper (1) by Ray and colleagues compared all-cause mortality for patients with chronic non cancer pain on either opioids or alternative medications. They described a significant increase in deaths from the opioid group.

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