Researchers find anti-depressants reduce pain in opioid-dependent patients
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
In what is believed to be the first study of its kind to demonstrate an association between the antidepressant escitalopram and improved general pain, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), have found that opioid-dependent patients treated with escitalopram experienced meaningful reductions in pain severity and pain interference during the first three months of therapy. These findings appear in the journal Pain.