Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Breaking the Opioid Cycle: How Chiropractic Care Saves Lives!

10 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid argues chiropractic care can cut opioid use for back pain patients. Nearly 60% of people on opioids report back pain, and six years of chiropractic treatment reduces the odds of filling an opioid prescription by over 50%.

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Almost 60% (as stated by the speaker).

The speaker states chiropractic care over a six-year period reduces the likelihood of filling an opioid by over 50%.

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Chiropractic care in the use of opioids. As we talked about at the beginning, we have a ton of opioid deaths. That's not good. And almost 60% of people taking opioids report having back pain. That's a high correlation. Well, what do we know? Well, if somebody receives chiropractic care over a six year period, the likelihood that they fill an opioid is going to drop by over 50%. You have people struggling on these types of medications right now in your community. You, you probably have people in your practice that you don't even know that are struggling with this type of thing. But please be aware that you are making a material impact in this. With every patient that comes in, especially those boring patients that come in with sciatica, those boring patients that come in with back pain, those boring patients that come in with radiculopathy, you change their life. You change their life for them. Their spouse, their partner, their work, their family. How big of a mission is that? What's bigger? Nothing, in my opinion.