Long-term opioid therapy relieves chronic pain in only 20 percent of women

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/mali-lot100815.php

Public Release: 8-Oct-2015
Long-term opioid therapy relieves chronic pain in only 20 percent of women
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

Women, and especially younger women, are much less likely than men to have good relief of chronic, non-cancer pain with long-term opioid use, with only one in five women reporting low levels of pain and high levels of function with chronic opioid therapy in a new study published in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers . The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website until November 8, 2015.

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