Chronic pain and opioids: How to talk tapering


Knowing how to begin patient conversations about opioid tapering can be challenging so NPS MedicineWise offers some practice tips to get the conversation off on the right footing. Use the term ‘pain medicines’ rather than ‘pain killers’. In chronic non-cancer pain there is no such thing as a ‘pain killer’,1 and this term may give

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