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Less than half of people prescribed gabapentin will not notice meaningful pain relief but will likely experience side effects or adverse events.

The research suggests that patients with cancer who previously received preventative prescriptions even without pain may now be less likely to receive a prescription until they begin reporting pain.

Among those treated with the drug combination, 18 to 22 out of every 100 residents had a seizure within one year, compared to fewer than two per 100 in the general nursing home population.

Pharmacists are instrumental in recognizing MOH, counseling patients who rely on analgesics more than twice weekly, and encouraging preventive therapies.

Integrating suzetrigine and cebranopadol into multimodal treatment algorithms may reduce opioid doses, improve patient function and expand options for those at risk of opioid-related harms.

“The death of almost one million Americans during the opioid epidemic has been one of the cardinal failures of the public health establishment,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H. “This long-overdue labeling change is only part of what needs to be done — we also need to modernize our approval processes and post-market monitoring so that nothing like this ever happens again.”