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Article: Protocol works for narcotic bowel syndrome.(Psychosomatic Medicine)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
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- March 1, 2008
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SALT LAKE CITY -- Narcotic bowel syndrome is a problem that physicians have been sweeping under the rug, and it may be growing in frequency, Dr. Douglas A. Drossman said at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.
Physicians have ignored this syndrome, since many are loathe to undertake the arduous task of weaning their patients from narcotics, said Dr. Drossman, co-director of the University of North Carolina Center for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders.
But this reluctance is not necessary, because patients can be helped to break the "vicious cycle," he said. There is a ...