[HTML][HTML] Rethinking “doing well” on chronic opioid therapy

DN Juurlink - Cmaj, 2017 - Can Med Assoc
Weighing what we now know, an unpleasant fact emerges: patients receiving chronic opioid
therapy can easily be harmed more than helped by medications they perceive to be effective …

[HTML][HTML] Narrowing the treatment gap in managing opioid use disorder

JH Donroe, JM Tetrault - Cmaj, 2018 - Can Med Assoc
Second, withdrawal management alone should be avoided and is associated with relapse,
morbidity and death. This is particularly relevant for front-line providers working in hospital …

[HTML][HTML] New Canadian guidance on opioid use for chronic pain: necessary but not sufficient

AD Furlan, OD Williamson - CMAJ, 2017 - Can Med Assoc
CMAJ| MAY 8, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 18 E651 symptoms or do not trust that their
prescribers are changing their prescriptions because it is in the patient's best interests …

Chronic pain and opiate management

CY Choi - Disease-a-Month, 2016 - Elsevier
The words chronic pain and opiates are too often spoken in the same context; almost to infer
a symbiotic relationship between the two, as if opiates are the answer to chronic pain and …

[HTML][HTML] Three years down the road: the aftermath of the CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain

JV Pergolizzi, M Rosenblatt, JA LeQuang - Advances in therapy, 2019 - Springer
The 2016 CDC guidelines for opioid prescribing by primary care physicians have exposed
some shortfalls in our thinking about opioid use and stranded many chronic pain patients …

[PDF][PDF] Balancing the risks and benefits of opioid therapy: The pill and the pendulum

SP Cohen, WM Hooten - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2019 - Elsevier
Conclusions In summary, the surge in opioid use has resulted in a crisis of unprecedented
proportions, which in turn has led to an equally unparalleled campaign to curtail their use …

The evolution of chronic opioid therapy and recognizing addiction

AM Daum, O Berkowitz, JA Renner Jr - JAAPA, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain is one of the most common complaints in the United States. Opioids have
become a frequently prescribed treatment for patients with chronic nonmalignant pain …

Objective evidence of severe disease: opioid use in chronic pain

JA Zweifler - The Annals of Family Medicine, 2012 - Annals Family Med
Treating chronic pain presents numerous challenges. First, assessing patients with chronic
pain is complicated by the lack of objective measures of pain itself. Chronic pain guidelines …

Patient-centered reduction or discontinuation of long-term opioid analgesics: the HHS guide for clinicians

D Dowell, WM Compton, BP Giroir - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Prescription opioid use continues to contribute to significantmorbidityandmortalityintheUnited…
. 1-4 In 2017, 17029ofthe47600opioid-relatedoverdosedeaths involved prescription opioids …

The physicians' quandary with opioids: pain versus addiction

M Serafini - NEJM Catalyst, 2018 - catalyst.nejm.org
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