{"id":576,"date":"2018-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/treating-depression-found-to-up-successful-opioid-cessation\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:09:57","slug":"treating-depression-found-to-up-successful-opioid-cessation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/treating-depression-found-to-up-successful-opioid-cessation\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating Depression Found to Up Successful Opioid Cessation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Taking antidepressants helped non-cancer pain patients successfully stop long-term opioid use<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Antidepressant medication (ADM) adherence is associated with cessation of long-term prescription opioid use among patients with non-cancer pain, according to a study published in the February issue of the <i>British Journal of Psychiatry<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey F. Scherrer, Ph.D., from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and colleagues assessed whether adherence to ADM is associated with opioid cessation in 2,821 non-cancer, non-HIV patients with a new depression episode after >90 days of opioid analgesic use. Patients with an ADM prescription filled from 2002 to 2012 were eligible.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the incidence rate of opioid cessation was significantly (P = 0.007) greater in patients who adhered to antidepressants versus those who did not adhere. There was a significant association between ADM adherence and opioid cessation (odds ratio, 1.24).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Opioid taper and cessation may be more successful when depression is treated to remission,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry\/article\/impact-of-adherence-to-antidepressants-on-longterm-prescription-opioid-use-cessation\/C42FEAD3D267365D0A1E38A05AC8A387\/core-reader\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking antidepressants helped non-cancer pain patients successfully stop long-term opioid use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}