Medications Work to Intervene Pain Signals
Received Date: Dec 02, 2022 / Published Date: Dec 29, 2022
Abstract
Despite the widespread use of opioid medications to treat chronic pain, there is no significant evidence to support this practice. A recent article reviewing the evidence regarding the use of opioids to treat chronic non-cancer pain concluded, there is no high- quality evidence on the efficacy of long-term opioid treatment of chronic non- malignant pain. A recent Cochrane review comparing opioids to placebo in the treatment of low back pain came to a similar conclusion. This review said that there may be some benefit over placebo when used for short term treatment, but no evidence supports opioids are helpful when used for longer than four months.
Keywords: Medications; Opioids; Chronic pain; Back and neck pain;Epidemiology; Therapy
Citation: Oliver J (2022) Medications Work to Intervene Pain Signals. J Pain Relief 11: 473. Doi: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000473
Copyright: © 2022 Oliver J. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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