Higher Risk Of Sleep Apnea When Patients Use Opioid-Based Pain Medications
Sep 12th 2007Drug InformationPain / Anesthetics
Opioid-based pain medications may cause sleep apnea, according to an article in the September issue of Pain Medicine, the journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.”We found that sleep-disordered breathing was common when chronic pain patients took prescribed opioids,” explains lead author Lynn R. Webster, MD, from Lifetree Clinical Research and Pain Clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah. [click link for full article]
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