Health - Health insurance company complains about careless use of painkillers
According to the health insurance company Barmer, painkillers are often used too carelessly. "The combination of supposedly harmless painkillers in particular can have fatal consequences," said Bavaria's Barmer regional managing director Alfred Kindshofer on Wednesday with regard to the 2023 Drug Report. Drugs such as ibuprofen or diclofenac are also available without a prescription. According to Barmer, doctors are therefore often unaware that their patients are taking such preparations if they do not report it themselves.
Details of the report, which analyzes figures from 2021, will be published by the health insurance company this morning. According to the Barmer Pain Atlas, 499 people per 10,000 inhabitants suffer from chronic pain. The lowest number of people affected nationwide was in the district of Dillingen an der Donau in Swabia with 279 people per 10,000 inhabitants. According to the report, Landshut brought up the rear with 856 sufferers per 10,000 inhabitants.
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Source: www.stern.de
