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Patients who take most kinds of pain medications run the risk of becoming addicted to those medications. Patients who are addicted to medications will take their medications more frequently or at a higher dosage than what is prescribed, ingest drugs in other ways than directed, report stolen medications often and engage in "doctor shopping".
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Is Treatment for Chronic Back Pain Creating Addiction, Not Relief
An analysis of studies regarding the use of opioids in chronic back pain was published in the January 16, 2007 edition of “Annals of Internal Medicine”.Interestingly, the authors found that opioids may not be effective for more than four months for chronic back pain. But the prevalence of lifetime or current abuse of these drugs can be over…
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