In response to overwhelming increases in national opioid use that have resulted in an epidemic of opiate overdoses, the CDC has published drastically new chronic pain management guidelines that strongly discourage opiate use as a first-choice therapy for the treatment of chronic pain.

A Mayo Clinic study centered in Rochester, MN, determined that there is no association following surgery between anesthesia use in patients over age 40 and later development of cognitive degeneration.

With an estimated 2 million people in the United States alone struggling with some form of opioid abuse disorder, many medical professionals are calling for proactive measures to aid in the reversal of opioid addiction rate trends.

Opioid-induced constipation’s mechanisms depend on opioids’ tendency to vigorously stimulate mu receptors which suppress propulsion in the colon.