Schumacher LED, Sargi ZB, Masforroll M, et al. - Researchers, for the first time, report long-term outcomes (≥ 1 year) of treating patients undergoing curative-intent radiotherapy with opioids to manage pain from tumor or treatment. They retrospectively evaluated records of 276 head/neck cancer individuals for persistent opioid use 1-year following curative-intent radiotherapy. Of note, over the long term, 20 out of 276 patients tended to use opioids. Of note, 7.2% of patients had long-term opioid use related to high maximum opioid dosage and early opioid initiation and/or psychotropic/non-opioid analgesics. Clinical conditions are cited as the primary reason for continued use by physicians.