Study Suggests Meds Management Better Than Therapy for Chronic Pain

A study on chronic lower back pain among veterans who have been taking opioids long term found that targeted management of medication resulted in better outcomes when compared with cognitive behavioral therapy, but that the results did not give a clear indication of which approach is better. Researchers who published their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association network on Thursday concluded that the results “indicate that a collaborative care medication optimization approach has a statistically significant but clinically modest benefit when compared with CBT for 12 ...