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Article: Too many migraineurs shortchanged.(care and treatment)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Although the trip-tans are now by far the most widely recommended medications for acute migraine treatment, barbiturates, opioids, and nonspecific sedative drugs are still widely used and are causing problems for some headache patients.
It's hard to know how many patients are still receiving prescriptions for these drugs as a treatment for migraine. But a recent study examining prescribing data from 2000 concluded that 22% of headache sufferers reported using opioid analgesics and 17% reported using butalbital-containing products (Headache 2005;45:1171-80). A 2002 study found similar numbers: 14%-36% of diagnosed migraineurs were being prescribed ...