A way around opioids: Target the type of pain for better pain relief
- Written by David A. Edwards, Division Chief, Pain Medicine, Vanderbilt University
As doctors have learned more about the types of pain, they can better tailor treatment.Dundanim/Shutterstock.comIn the old days, pain was pain, and there was not a lot of differentiating on the best way to treat it. Then came along powerful morphine in the late 1800s, and more than a century later, powerful opioid painkillers. Marketing by opioid...
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