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Expert decision making on opioid treatment

Expert decision making on opioid treatment [E-Book] - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (x, 145 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pain without a pathoanatomic diagnosis / Catherine F. Stannard -- Opioid therapy of chronic pain in persons with known substance use disorder / Julie Sorensen Franklin, Seddon R. Savage -- Screening before embarking : how to screen for addiction risk in opioid prescribing / Robert N. Jamison, Juliana Serraillier, Edward Michna -- Functional pain syndromes / Claudia Sommer, Nurcan �U�ceyler -- Chronic opioid therapy in childhood and adolescence / Lisa Isaac [and others] -- Debilitating pain / Eija Kalso -- Chronic cancer pain / Shane Brogan, Perry G. Fine -- Pain after trauma (including PTSD) / William C. Becker, Robert D. Kerns -- Opioid therapy in chronic painful disease / Daniel Krashin, Andrea M. Trescot -- United States workers' compensation and disability / James P. Robinson -- Using measurement-based tools to improve pain care / David J. Tauben -- Not a suitable candidate : saying no / Jane C. Ballantyne.

Over the last several decades opioid treatment for chronic pain has become increasingly popular. From the sense that chronic pain had previously been undertreated, to drug companies anxious to sell new ""designer"" opioids, usage has increased several-fold. In its unfortunate history non-specialists were persuaded to prescribe opioids before they could possibly understand the complexity of the treatment. So great were the pressures to prescribe, opioids were prescribed indiscriminately. It became almost impossible to deny opioids without seeming inhumane

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Opioids--Therapeutic use.
Chronic pain--Chemotherapy.
Analgesics.
Pain medicine.
Opioid abuse--Prevention.
Diagnosis, Differential.
Analgesics, Opioid--therapeutic use
Chronic Pain--drug therapy
Chronic Disease--drug therapy
Diagnosis, Differential
Pain Management--methods
Analgesics

2013 D-310 WL 704.6
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