While pain medicine physicians, such as those at Weill Cornell Medical college, increasingly try to treat chronic pain with a multi-disciplinary approach, the use of medications remains an important part of most treatment regimes. Prescribing drugs offers benefits, but also potential difficulties. Patients may deviate from their prescriptions, taking either too much or not enough of a particular medicine. These alterations to dosage can reduce the effectiveness of treatment and even endanger...
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