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Acute Back Pain: Skip the Prescription Painkillers in First Line, Study Suggests

(MedPage Today) -- Patients with acute low back pain (LBP) who got opioids or gabapentinoids as initial therapy faced twice the risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) or overdose compared with other first-line treatments, nationwide Medicaid data showed...

Acute Back Pain: Skip the Prescription Painkillers in First Line, Study Suggests

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