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Original Research BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD, Jeffrey N. Bone, PhD, Rebecca Courtemanche, MSc, CCRP, Leeor S. Yefet, MD, Mary-Claire Simmonds, MBBS, FANZCA, Eric Cattoni, MD, CCFP, Gillian R. Lauder, MB BCh, FRCPC, Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, FRCSC

Long-term opioid therapy is associated with significant side effect profiles.[1-4] The prevalence of long-term opioid therapy has been reported to be 5.4% in the United States and 17.6% in Canada.[5,... Read More