5 Tips for Pain Management with Opioids

Millions of Americans take prescription pain medications called opioids. While opioids control pain, they’re not without risk: each day 44 people die from opioid overdoses and 80 percent of those deaths are unintentional.

 “About 100 million people suffer with chronic pain and many of them rely on opioids,” said Daniel J. Cole, M.D. president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). 

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