Alicia Agnoli, MD assistant professor of family and community medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine and lead author of the study “Association of Dose Tapering with Overdose or Mental Health Crisis Among Patients Prescribed Long-Term Opioids,” published in Journal of the American Medical Association. UCDavis.edu
The dangers of long-term opioid use are well-documented—addiction, overdose, bone fractures, heart attacks and more. But new research shows that the seemingly sensible step of...
