#336 Updates in Addiction Medicine: Live from SGIM
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Is It Safe to Rapidly Taper Opioid Doses?
Stephanie Coontz: I think what's most important is that this has to be a shared decision making type of con ation with the patient. We have to figure out where they're at, also figure out, like, why do we want to taper the opioids, right? And what goes into that is a, are we worried that this person is having side effects? Or have they developed an opioduse disorder? That's an opportunity to screen for an opiodused disorder. A. We should be doing all those things as we, you know, got to know the patient better before we make any decisions on the opiotes themselves.
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