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01/08/2019 / By Michelle Simmons

Addiction as a “post-operative complication:” Surgeons can reduce opioid addiction by performing minimally invasive procedures

Most surgeons prescribe opioids to patients after lung surgery as a short-term approach to relieve pain. However, a lot of lung surgery patients continue to take the medication for several months after their operations, which results in opioid dependence. In fact, researchers found that one out of seven lung surgery patients became dependent on opioids […]

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