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Welcome to Helix Talk, episode 21. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane. And I'm Dr. Schumann.

Today we're going to be talking about opioids, but not in the same sense that we have in the past.

This time we're going to talk about some of the adverse effects of opioids, some of the

issues in terms of chronic use of opioids, reversal of opioids, and then finally some of the

non-opioid analgesics that

are available in the market.

All right.

So one of the first things we're going to talk about us some statistics about opioids.

And my primary practice site is within a veteran population.

So what I have when I've when I've talked about these things in the past is to use some of these

numbers to let you know, you know, kind of where we stand and

what to kind of discuss, you know, how much of a concern these are. I'm to kind of see what it

really is, because I know this has been something that, you know, comes up in the news from time

to time, and we, in a lot of interviews talk about the concerns with it, but what is, what's

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