Are Chiropractors Replacing Opioids? This New Study Says Yes | #495

7 Jul 2025 · 16 min
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Dr. Jeff Langmaid reviews a study showing that by 2019, more adults with chronic pain used non-pharmacological treatments than opioids. Chiropractic care became the most common alternative, used by 25.6% of chronic pain patients, up 14 percentage points since 2011. Yet 60% of patients received neither treatment.

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2011–2019.

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).

About 44% (host-cited figure).

About 15–16% (host-cited figure).

25.6% (host-cited figure).

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