Ep. 271 - In Pain: When No One Knows How to Taper Pain Pills

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Feb 4, 202000:44:51Health

In 1996, pain became the 5th vital sign in medicine, prompting doctors to rely on opioids for pain treatment. As a result, opioid prescriptions spiked over the next 15 years, causing hundreds of thousands of opioid addic...

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