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November 01, 2020 - guidelines that recommend opioids for 
breathlessness are based mainly on results from short-term studies of opioid-naïve
                                     
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October 08, 2025 - Outcomes	Functional Outcomes	Quality of Life Outcomes	Anxiety and Depression Outcomes	Sleep Outcomes	Opioid … 2021	Matched cohort	Canada	NR	NR	Mean	52	55	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	10,746
A: 5373
B: 5373	A: Chronic opioid … Overall absolute effect after medical cannabis authorization: ˗76.5 (˗308.0 to 154.9)
Prescription opioid … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR [95% CI]): 2.29 (0.86 to 6.16)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR [95% CI]): 1.11 (0.36 to 3.49)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted
                                     
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October 08, 2025 - Outcomes	Functional Outcomes	Quality of Life Outcomes	Anxiety and Depression Outcomes	Sleep Outcomes	Opioid … 2021	Matched cohort	Canada	NR	NR	Mean	52	55	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	10,746
A: 5373
B: 5373	A: Chronic opioid … Overall absolute effect after medical cannabis authorization: ˗76.5 (˗308.0 to 154.9)
Prescription opioid … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR [95% CI]): 2.29 (0.86 to 6.16)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR [95% CI]): 1.11 (0.36 to 3.49)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/dot-plots-methods.pdf
October 01, 2021 - Dot plot for dichotomous outcomes, opioids versus placebo or no opioid ..................... 3 
Figure … For continuous outcomes (opioid review only), the 
dataset consisted of: outcome, number of trials, baseline … Dot plot for dichotomous outcomes, opioids versus placebo or no opioid 
 
Note: Pain response indicates … Dot plot for continuous outcomes, opioids versus placebo or no opioid 
 
 
Abbreviations: CI = confidence … Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain.
                                     
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January 01, 2023 - Outcomes	Functional Outcomes	Quality of Life Outcomes	Anxiety and Depression Outcomes	Sleep Outcomes	Opioid … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 2.29 (95% CI 0.86 to 6.16)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 1.11 (95% CI 0.36 to 3.49)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … B
Between-cohort differences in discontinuation of strong opioid analgesics: 71.6% vs. 33.8%, p<0.001 … use at 6 months:
Mild opioid analgesics: 0.00 (SD 0.06) vs. 0.04 (SD 0.20)
Strong opioid analgesics:
                                     
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January 01, 2022 - Outcomes	Functional Outcomes	Quality of Life Outcomes	Anxiety and Depression Outcomes	Sleep Outcomes	Opioid … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 2.29 (95% CI 0.86 to 6.16)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 1.11 (95% CI 0.36 to 3.49)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … B
Between-cohort differences in discontinuation of strong opioid analgesics: 71.6% vs. 33.8%, p<0.001 … use at 6 months:
Mild opioid analgesics: 0.00 (SD 0.06) vs. 0.04 (SD 0.20)
Strong opioid analgesics:
                                     
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November 18, 2023 - have a 2.5-fold higher risk of developing opioid use disorder than those not 
discharged with opioid … Opioid-related adverse effects in children 
https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/? … Incidence of and Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use 
Among Opioid-Naive Patients in the Postoperative … Opioid Dependence and Overdose After Surgery: Rate, Risk Factors, 
and Reasons. … Chronic Opioid Use After Surgery: Implications for 
Perioperative Management in the Face of the Opioid
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/dot-plots-methods.pdf
October 01, 2021 - Dot plot for dichotomous outcomes, opioids versus placebo or no opioid ..................... 3 
Figure … For continuous outcomes (opioid review only), the 
dataset consisted of: outcome, number of trials, baseline … Dot plot for dichotomous outcomes, opioids versus placebo or no opioid 
 
Note: Pain response indicates … Dot plot for continuous outcomes, opioids versus placebo or no opioid 
 
 
Abbreviations: CI = confidence … Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-250-cannabis-table-e5-2022-update_0.xlsx
January 01, 2022 - Outcomes	Functional Outcomes	Quality of Life Outcomes	Anxiety and Depression Outcomes	Sleep Outcomes	Opioid … Overall absolute effect after medical cannabis authorization: ˗76.5 (˗308.0 to 154.9)
Prescription opioid … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR [95% CI]): 2.29 (0.86 to 6.16)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR [95% CI]): 1.11 (0.36 to 3.49)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … B
Between-cohort differences in discontinuation of strong opioid analgesics: 71.6% vs. 33.8%, p<0.001
                                     
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January 01, 2024 - Outcomes	Functional Outcomes	Quality of Life Outcomes	Anxiety and Depression Outcomes	Sleep Outcomes	Opioid … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 2.29 (95% CI 0.86 to 6.16)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 1.11 (95% CI 0.36 to 3.49)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … B
Between-cohort differences in discontinuation of strong opioid analgesics: 71.6% vs. 33.8%, p<0.001 … use at 6 months:
Mild opioid analgesics: 0.00 (SD 0.06) vs. 0.04 (SD 0.20)
Strong opioid analgesics:
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/acute-pain-ems-protocol-amendment.pdf
January 28, 2019 - .4-6 Under-
treatment of pain in the prehospital setting paired with the recent focus on optimizing 
opioid … and 
non-opioid analgesics for the prehospital management of acute pain to support a revision 
of the … America’s opioid epidemic: supply and demand 
considerations. Anesth Analg. 2017;125:1667-74. 
10. … Opioid prescribing in a cross section of US 
emergency departments. … Opioid complications and side effects. Pain 
Physician. 2018;11:S105-20. 
12.
                                     
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February 01, 2019 - Prescription Opioid Data. 2018. 
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/prescribing.html. … Trends in long-term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer 
pain. … Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers---
United States, 1999--2008. … Opioid prescriptions by U.S. primary care physicians from 1992 to 2001. … Trends in long‐term opioid therapy for chronic non‐cancer 
pain.
                                     
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January 01, 2025 - Outcomes	Functional Outcomes	Quality of Life Outcomes	Anxiety and Depression Outcomes	Sleep Outcomes	Opioid … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 2.29 (95% CI 0.86 to 6.16)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … C (reference)
Opioid initiation (adjusted OR): 1.11 (95% CI 0.36 to 3.49)
Opioid discontinuation (adjusted … B
Between-cohort differences in discontinuation of strong opioid analgesics: 71.6% vs. 33.8%, p<0.001 … use at 6 months:
Mild opioid analgesics: 0.00 (SD 0.06) vs. 0.04 (SD 0.20)
Strong opioid analgesics:
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-227-noninvasive-nonpharm-chronic-pain-comments.pdf
April 16, 2020 - treatment, either allowing their pain to worsen or seeking 
immediate albeit short-term relief via an opioid … trials where this 
actually occurred) 
References: 
– Richard A Lawhern, PhD, “The CDC’s Fictitious Opioid … , April 15, 2017, 
https://www.ncnp.org/journal-of-medicine/1980-the-cdcs-
fictitious-opioid-epidemic-part … There are two concurrent reviews, one on opioids 
and the other on non-opioid pharmacologic 
treatments … There were no studies meeting our inclusion 
criteria that compared acupuncture to opioid use.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/acute-pain-protocol-amended.pdf
June 10, 2018 - Background and Objectives for the Technical Brief 
Addressing the opioid epidemic in the United States … This reemergence primarily results 
from the sharp rise in opioid-related deaths in the United States … Opioid related deaths have risen 
from 3 deaths per 100,000 people in 2000 to more than 13 per 100,000 … opioids were involved in over 40 percent of all overdose deaths in 2016.1 
The urgency of the growing opioid … Opioid Overdose. 2017. 
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html. 
 
2. Institute of Medicine.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/back-pain-treatment_research_executive.pdf
February 01, 2016 - NSAID No difference 6 RCTs Moderate -- -- --
Opioid vs. … opioid vs. short-acting 
opioid
No clear difference* 6 RCTs Low -- -- --
Benzodiazepine (diazepam) … NSAID No difference 6 RCTs Moderate -- -- --
Opioid vs. … opioid vs. short-acting 
opioid
No clear difference* 6 RCTs Low -- -- --
Benzodiazepine (diazepam) … opioid vs.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/hip-fracture-pain_consumer.pdf
May 01, 2011 - Opioid analgesics. Some common names for these drugs are 
morphine, codeine, and oxycodone. … Common side effects of opioid analgesics include:
 � Nausea, vomiting, and constipation. … before, during, or 
after an an operation may ease short-term pain more than the 
usual treatment of opioid … may help you avoid “delirium,” or confusion and cloudy thinking, 
which can be caused by pain or by opioid … will be 
improved or relieved by acupressure, relaxation therapy, or TENS 
more than by medicines like opioid
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-report-testing-machine-learning-tool-chronic-pain.pdf
November 01, 2020 - The 
Effectiveness and Risks of Long-Term 
Opioid Treatment of Chronic Pain. … /  
10. opioid*.ti,ab,kw.  
11. … Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain 
KQ 1-3 (Treatment) 
1. … Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain 
Afilalo M, Etropolski MS, Kuperwasser B, et al. … J Opioid Manag. 2015;11(6):507-518. PMID: 26728648.
                                     
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June 01, 2013 - Buprenorphine implant (Probuphine) for treatment of opioid dependence No high-impact potential at this … The buprenorphine implant, Probuphine, developed for treating opioid dependence, uses a new 
delivery … Opioid abuse is one of the most common forms of prescription drug abuse. … Opioid dependency 
 
ES-3 
management includes medically supervised detoxification and opiate replacement … Available short-acting treatments for opioid dependence (e.g., naltrexone, 
methadone, buprenorphine
                                     
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June 01, 2025 - In the case of opioids,8 serious potential harms include risk of opioid use disorder and overdose. … 2025 
Comparison of VER-01 to Opioids in Patients 
With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain 
VER-01; Opioid … Therapy  350 March 2025  
Evaluation of Medical Cannabis and Prescription 
Opioid Taper Support for … Opioid Taper 
Support (POTS) 
250 June 2025 
Reducing Pain and Opioid Use With CBD Cannabidiol; Placebo … CBD = cannabidiol; MIRE = Monochromatic Infrared Photo Energy; NR = not reported; POTS = Prescription Opioid