Dental pain treatment with opioid painkillers like Oxycontin and Oxycodone declined before and during the pandemic but the rate of decline slowed after 2020.

Experts at Michigan Medicine are focusing on helping people with chronic pain, which is defined as pain that lasts more than three months.

Fibromyalgia may worsen opioid addiction, researchers at Michigan Medicine find. The chronic pain associated with the condition may lead to the increased use of opioids by individuals.

And the development of a new slow-release drug seeks to target them

More than half of adults surveyed reported that the use of cannabis led them to decrease their pain medications.

Despite equal access to pain management care, Black patients were 40% more likely than white patients to report uncontrolled pain scores. New pilot programs aim to change that.

Researchers say the findings suggest more clinicians are carefully considering the risks of prescribing opioids.

Getting to know a pain management clinical pharmacist-specialist.

Study points to the need to personalize pain-relief approach.

Models could help identify patients who may benefit most from counseling.

Caring for patients with acute and chronic pain

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The method could be an alternative to opioids and other medication.

Anxiety, depression, pain and fatigue often happen at the same time for patients newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Multiple prescribers means higher overdose risk in patients taking a benzodiazepine (such as Xanax, Valium or Restoril) and an opioid (such as Vicodin, Norco or Percocet) at the same time