Opioids Given Following Surgery Could Actually Be Making Chronic Back Pain Worse
You ’d be forgive for ask , post - operating theater , to be given a nice big hit of painkillers . Well , fresh research is suggesting that prescribing someone with opioids might not be such a good approximation , and could rather beprolonging chronic back annoyance , not make it well . “ There is surely a dark side in condition of addiction when it comes to opioids , but this is a very different idea – that we think we are treating the pain with these drugs and we may actually be prolonging it,”saidLinda Watkins , who is the aged writer of the newspaper exploring this essence , published in the journalAnesthesia & Analgesia ....