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Medication-overuse headache

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Link to WHO Definition

Medication-overuse headache – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1723984719

Headache occurring on 15 or more days per month developing as a consequence of regular overuse of acute or symptomatic headache medication (on 10 or more or 15 or more days per month, depending on the medication) for more than three months. It usually, but not invariably, resolves after the overuse is stopped