Association between Pain Intensity and Discontinuing Opioid Therapy or Transitioning to Intermittent Opioid Therapy after Initial Long-Term Opioid Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study

With greater awareness of opioid harms and emerging evidence that long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) may not be more effective than other treatments for chronic, non-cancer pain (CNCP),4,19 prescribers are frequently confronted with decisions about discontinuing or tapering patients’ opioid regimens. To inform these decisions, prescribers and patients need information about effects of opioid reduction on patients’ pain.

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