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AddictionJuly 9, 2026

Medicaid and Benzodiazepines Predicted Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery

TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Pain Medicine found that Medicaid enrollment and preoperative benzodiazepine use had the largest pooled associations with new persistent opioid use after surgery among opioid-naive US adults. Key Findings 27…

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Drugs & MedicationsJuly 5, 2026

Postoperative Pain Review Finds NSAID-Dexamethasone and Regional Anesthesia Strongest for Opioid Sparing

TL;DR: A 2026 review in Journal of Pain Research argues that postoperative pain care is moving away from opioid-centered prescribing toward multimodal, opioid-sparing protocols, with the strongest practical signal around NSAIDs paired with dexamethasone or reg…

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Medicaid and Benzodiazepines Predicted Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery

Postoperative Pain Review Finds NSAID-Dexamethasone and Regional Anesthesia Strongest for Opioid Sparing

The findings. The context. The caveats.