Please view the demonstration video for the Opioid Manager. The Opioid Manager is designed to be a point-of-care tool which distils onto one double-sided page,...
Prescribers and the public have been misinformed about the risk of addiction when chronic pain is treated with opioids. This has led to overprescribing of...
By definition opioid pain medications act at opioid receptors to produce pain relief. But other than that opioid pain medications vary greatly. Some are newly...
Despite low-quality evidence supporting practice change, use of opioids for chronic pain increased dramatically over the past two decades. Concurrently, there has been a sharp...
Using acupuncture before and during surgery significantly reduces the level of pain and the amount of potent painkillers needed by patients after the surgery is...
Physical dependence is not exactly the same as addiction. But they are closely related. Physical dependence can make it very difficult for people to quit...
