When prescribing any headache therapy, appropriate use of medications needs to be discussed to prevent medication-overuse headaches. A clinical characteristic of medication-overuse headaches is that they:
1. Are increasing in frequency
2. Are increasing in intensity
3. Recur when medication wears off
4. Begin to "cluster" into a pattern
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