
Chronic use of prescription painkillers, also known as opioids, among obese patients prior to bariatric surgery was found to continue even after surgery, in a new Kaiser Permanente study published in the iJournal of the American Medical Association/i. Researchers examined the electronic medical records of 11,719 obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery between 2005-2009 at one of 10 U.S. sites in the Scalable Partnering Network. Participating patients ...

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