Significant pain increases the risk of opioid addiction by 41 percent
Friday, July 22, 2016 - 09:51
in Health & Medicine
What do we really know about the relationship between the experience of pain and risk of developing opioid use disorder? Results from a recent study -- the first to directly address this question -- show that people with moderate or more severe pain had a 41 percent higher risk of developing prescription opioid use disorders than those without, independent of other demographic and clinical factors.