Research progress of medication⁃overuse headache

Chun⁃fu CHEN

Abstract


Medication⁃overuse headache (MOH) is a global public health problem involving medicine, economics and sociology. High frequency or chronic primary headache is a risk factor of MOH. The methods to prevent MOH are to strengthen the treatment and management of primary headache, to improve the understanding of MOH, and to avoid overuse of analgesics. This article reviews the diagnosis, clinical features, drug overuse and drug dependence, and treatment of MOH.

 

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1672⁃6731.2022.02.009


Keywords


Headache; Drug overdose; Substance⁃related disorders; Review

Full Text: PDF

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.