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New toolkit to help GPs with opioid dose tapering

GPs must be better-equipped to support patients prescribed long-term opioids for non-cancer pain to gradually reduce or ‘taper’ their doses, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

GPs must be better-equipped to support patients prescribed long-term opioids for non-cancer pain to gradually reduce or ‘taper’ their doses, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The recommendation is part of a toolkit being launched to help GPs reduce the amount of opioids they prescribe. The toolkit outlines seven areas of best practice to tackle chronic opioid use – based on international research evidence, the experiences of health organisations and individual practitioners. It comes after figures for England and Wales revealed an increase in opioid prescriptions of more than 60% over the last decade – from 14 million in 2008 to

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