Prescription analgesic overuse in older adults: Can we mitigate this growing problem?

With older adults already on numerous prescription medications to manage their chronic conditions, the addition of pain medications could impose an even greater burden due to dependency issues. We need to understand the use of chronic pain medication, especially opioids, discuss current strategies a...

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Autores principales: Kakatkar, Sara, Narayan, Aditya, Balkrishnan, Rajesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9805287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36606265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12228
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spelling pubmed-98052872023-01-04 Prescription analgesic overuse in older adults: Can we mitigate this growing problem? Kakatkar, Sara Narayan, Aditya Balkrishnan, Rajesh Aging Med (Milton) Commentary With older adults already on numerous prescription medications to manage their chronic conditions, the addition of pain medications could impose an even greater burden due to dependency issues. We need to understand the use of chronic pain medication, especially opioids, discuss current strategies and gaps, and offer potential solutions to mitigate overuse among older adults.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9805287/ /pubmed/36606265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12228 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Aging Medicine published by Beijing Hospital and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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