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Migraine: opioid use and other mistakes you should avoid

Migraine is the most prevalent neurological disease in Spain: more than 5 million people suffer from it, 80% of which are women aged between 20-40 years. Many patients do not receive the most appropriate treatment for their disease for different reasons: late diagnosis, lack of awareness about the disease, tendency to self-medicate, abuse of drugs that are not indicated referral to the neurologist when the pathology has already become chronic.