Inside Health

Deprescribing long-term opioids, Diagnosing concussion

Mar 5, 2019 · 27 min · 26.8 MB
0:00-27:53

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Research suggests opioids don't work in long-term chronic pain but dispensing in the UK has risen four-fold since the nineties, and we consume more than any other country in Europe. There is a dearth of good evidence for how best to help people come off these drugs. Mark Porter meets the team trying to change that. And an objective pitch-side test that takes the guesswork out of diagnosing concussion.