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NEW ORLEANS -- Fentanyl lozenges provided effective relief and reduced the number of emergency room visits for breakthrough pain in a case series of 20 people with acute, refractory migraines.
More than 800,000 Americans visit an emergency room each year for the treatment of migraines (Ann. Emerg. Med. 39[3]:215-22, 2002). Researchers have estimated that the cost of these visits is 514 billion annually, including lost productivity (Arch. Intern. Med. 159[8]:813-18, 1999).
"We had a group of migraine patients going to...
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