ADDING even more fuel to the fire of the rescheduling debate is new research from US emergency department doctors who found that a combination of Ibuprofen with paracetamol works just as well as a combination of any of three different opioids with paracetamol in reducing pain brought on from a sprain, strain or fracture in the arms or legs.
The study authors from Albany Medical College, Albany, New York randomised 416 patients (ages 21 to 64 years) with moderate to severe acute extremity pain in two urban emergency departments to receive different combinations of analgesia, with no important differences in efficacy observed.
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