In France, chronic pain such as neuropathic pain, musculoskeletal pain or fibromyalgia affects 1 in 5 people. These pains are especially difficult to manage. Opioid medications are not recommended not only because of the risk of addiction, but also because they are not effective.
Doctors had found an alternative to antidepressants. In addition to their effects on anxiety, which is very common in chronic pain, these drugs do have specific pain-relieving effects. Therefore, antidepressants are increasingly prescribed in the context of chronic pain.
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Their effectiveness, however, has just been questioned by an analysis of studies by Cochrane, a collaborative database that regularly publishes reference works to summarize the state of knowledge in a given medical discipline.
Here, the authors compiled 176 studies that were conducted in a total of some…
Source: Le Figaro
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