The Comparative Effectiveness of Selected Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Interventions for Preventing or Reducing Opioid Use in Adults with Chronic Neck, Low Back, and Large Joint Pain 

Over the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in opioid related overdose deaths, dependence, and misuse. As a result, there is intense interest in non-opioid alternatives for treating chronic pain. Select Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) interventions may be a reasonable non-opioid treatment option if they can improve pain at a magnitude comparable to opioids, but without serious side effects. Whether CIH interventions can reduce chronic opioid use is of great interest in the fight against the opioid epidemic.