Patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain and interested in tapering their opioid dose were randomly assigned to a 22-week taper support intervention (psychiatric consultation, opioid dose tapering, and 18 weekly meetings with a physician assistant to explore motivation for tapering and learn pain self-management skills) or usual care (N=35). Assessments were conducted at baseline and 22 and 34 weeks after randomization. Using an intention-to-treat approach, we constructed linear regression models to compare groups at each follow-up.
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