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A new study reports the side effects of oxycodone, a widely used opioid pain medication, are similar in healthy older adults as in younger age groups, therefore, clinicians should not shy away from prescribing the drug to relieve pain in older patients. The article appears in The Journal of Pain, the peer review publication of the American Pain Society.

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