Patients on long-term opioid treatment for chronic pain reported experiencing negative physical side effects, emotional distress, and degraded relationships with their primary care provider.
Patients in the United States and Canada receive prescription opioids after surgeries at a rate that is approximately seven times higher than the rate in Sweden.
The U.S. opioid epidemic cost the nation’s economy $631 billion from 2015 through 2018.
Doctors should be more cautious when taking chronic pain patients off opioid painkillers.
Sleep disturbance may be associated with reduced improvements in pain interference and pain severity in patients with chronic pain, regardless of whether they are treated with opioids.
The Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse National Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment Steering Committee has released a new guideline on the use of injectable opioid agonist treatment for opioid use disorder.
There is enormous need for well-trained providers who are educated in treating opioid use disorder.
The FDA and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have issued joint warning letters to several website operators that have been illegally selling opioid medications online.
Even within an individual physician’s schedule, physician behavior for opioid prescribing varies by the appointment timing.
Treatment with lofexidine may provide better control of the symptoms of opioid withdrawal syndrome compared with placebo.
