Killing More Than Pain: Deaths of Women From Prescription Overdose Rise 400 …
Killing more than pain: Deaths of women from prescription overdose rise 400 …
Women ages 45 to 54 have the highest risk of dying from a prescription painkiller overdose (opioid or narcotic pain relievers including Vicodin, OxyContin, Opana and methadone). • More than five times as many women died from prescription painkiller …
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Opioid Tolerance or Hyperalgesia? Key Symptoms Offer Clues
A classic case of hyperalgesia will be a patient who initially presented with postlaminectomy syndrome with back and leg pain and has been receiving opioid therapy for years. "Now you start noticing something different — the patient's pain diagram is …
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