28.07.2017 | Editorial
Opioids and Substance Abuse: Education or Just Regulation?
verfasst von:
Rebecca Andrews, MD, Eric M. Mortensen, MD, MSc
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 10/2017
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Excerpt
Hardly a week passes without a headline decrying opioid deaths, opioid addiction, new opioid prescribing laws, lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for opioids, or some other dimension of the “opioid epidemic.” This term reflects the pervasive and ubiquitous nature of the issue. Each time a physician sees a patient with a pain or addiction issue, there is some fear. However, physicians are not the only ones who are afraid; patients with acute and chronic pain also wonder with considerable anxiety whether their pain will be appropriately treated. …