Top Tips to Ease Back Pain

What really works for chronic back pain? If you choose this standard care option, you could find yourself falling into a toxic trap.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Back pain is one of the most common health complaints across the globe, and the No. 1 cause of job disability. It’s also one of the most common reasons triggering opioid dependence

• Recent research shows opioids (including morphine, Vicodin, oxycodone and fentanyl) fail to control moderate to severe pain any better than over-the-counter d…