The dangers of opioid medications like oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine are becoming more and more well known thanks to countless studies, but it would seem that men are at a higher risk than women for death as a result of chronic use of these types of medications for non-cancer related conditions as well as short-term and long-term injuries. The study was conducted by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and the results showed that one in 45 men ramped up their dose to 200 milligrams of morphine or it’s equivalent, whereas one in 70 women did the same. The study indicated that for those people who elevated their dose in such a way were 24 times more likely to die from complications related to the medications versus those who did not increase their dose in such a way.… Read the rest »
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