Reducing Opioid Use for Postpartum Pain

Social pain and opioid use.

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Osteoarthritis Pain and Persistent Opioid Use

Introduction Osteoarthritis, a widespread arthritic condition associated with enormous individual, social and economic ramifications in our aging society remains incurable despite years of research [1, 2]. Principally due to localized structural and enzymatic disruptions of the articular cartilage lining of freely moving joints such as the knee, these destructive changes and others that commonl...

Opioid Use in Cancer Pain Management

Latin-American guidelines for opioid use in chronic nononcologic pain.

AIM Latin-American experts in the use of opioids in patients with chronic nononcologic pain (CNOP) have updated existing recommendations to current Latin-American reality. METHODS Several key opinion leaders from Latin America participated in a face-to-face meeting in Guatemala (April 2015) to discuss the use of opioids in CNOP. Subgroups of experts worked on specific topics, reviewed the lit...

Attitude of senior medical students on the use of opioid to manage patients' pain.

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