Opioid use cut in Half with essential oils post surgery

The researchers concluded: “Our results suggest that, by controlling anxiety, aromatherapy can help control pain and reduce opioid consumption. This is important, given the established role of the use of opioids in surgical patients in the overall opioid crisis in the US.”

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Abstract 08AP02-05 at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)

Opioid, aromatherapy, peppermint, lavender, anxiety, surgery , pain killers, limbic system, pain reduction, anxious, calming, relaxing, therapy, essential oils, addiction, opiates

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