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    Objective To determine the effect of prescription opioid use in the year before surgery on opioid consumption after surgery. Background Recently developed postoperative opioid prescribing guidelines rely on data from opioid-naïve patients. However, opioid use in the USA is common, and the impact of prior opioid exposure on the consumption of opioids after surgery is unclear. Methods…

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    Patients with chronic pain receiving long-term opioid therapy who were assigned to cognitive behavioral therapy reported reductions in pain and pain-related disability, data show. However, opioid use by the patients did not decrease, according to results from a randomized controlled trial published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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    Primary care physicians more often prescribed opioids for low back pain to white patients than patients of historically underrepresented groups, according to findings published in JAMA Health Forum.Bias creeps into many of the decisions that physicians make, Dan Ly, MD, PhD, MPP, an assistant professor in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at UCLA, told Healio

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