Driving Abilities NOT Impaired w/ Long-term OPIOID Use

Click here--->Opioids and Driving

From article:
"Recent preliminary study showed virtually no difference in the "driving skills and reaction times" of patients taking morphine compared to non-medicated drivers"

"In the future, these patients may be able to live "like normal functioning people, without the stigma and limitations now associated with long-term pain medication use"

This also a great article that Dave ARNP posted in a thread quite awhile back:
From article:
"Test scores significantly improved while subjects were taking opioids for pain, which suggests that long-term use of oxycodone with acetaminophen or transdermal fentanyl does not significantly impair cognitive ability or psychomotor function"

Clicky---> I love research studies

More power to chronic pain Patients!!!!!!!! Pain is the FIFTH vital sign and with great studies like this, hopefully the misinformed and the blinder-wearing attitudes will be history.

In contrast to our hypothesis are the findings of Jamison et al. (15) who compared psychomotor function of patients with noncancer pain receiving transdermal fentanyl or controlled-release oxycodone in a crossover design and reported no significant differences between the two opioids. However, the informational value of the results is limited by the fact that the authors performed only two paper tests.