In a specialty clinic study of patients receiving high-dose opioids (defined as 90 MME/day or more) for chronic pain, 44.6% of patients referred for tapering successfully reduced their dose below 90 MME/day, while another 18.8% who could not taper transitioned to sublingual buprenorphine.
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- CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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