Opioid tapering was associated with “unintended negative consequences,” including fewer primary care visits, more hospitalization and ED visits and reduced chronic condition medicine adherence, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.
Elizabeth M. Magnan MD and PhD, an associate professor of residence at the University of California Davis Health Medical Center, wrote that tapering long-term opioid treatment has increased since 2016, when the CDC released prescription opioid guidance. The updated guidance was meant to reduce overdose dangers. The researchers did note however
