Use of opioid painkillers for abdominal pain has more than doubled
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Across U.S. outpatient clinics between 1997 and 2008, opioid prescriptions for chronic abdominal pain more than doubled, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.