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Americans who have a tooth pulled or another painful dental procedure in the United States today are far less likely to get opioid painkillers than they were just a few years ago, a University of Michigan study shows.
Americans who have a tooth pulled or another painful dental procedure in the United States today are far less likely to get opioid painkillers than they were just a few years ago, a new study shows.
Worries that surgery patients would have a tougher recovery if their doctors had to abide by a five-day limit on opioid pain medication prescriptions didn't play out as expected, a new study finds.
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TUESDAY, April 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In the United States, the monthly buprenorphine initiation rate increased from January 2016 through September 2018, then flattened through October 2022, according to a research letter published in the April 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of