Monitoring Opioid Adherence in Chronic Pain Patients: Tools, Techniques, and Utility
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Monitoring opioid adherence in chronic pain patients: tools, techniques, and utility.
Opioids are important, if not essential, agents in treating certain types of chronic pain. However, the prevalence of drug misuse, abuse, and addiction has fostered considerable consternation among physicians, who may hesitate to prescribe these medications both due to concern for patients (misuse, abuse, and addiction), and fears of prosecution and/or professional sanction. Such practice may r...
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عنوان ژورنال: March 2008
سال: 2008
ISSN: 2150-1149,1533-3159
DOI: 10.36076/ppj.2008/11/s155