Avoiding opioid abuse while managing pain
Subtitle: a guide for practitioners
By: by Lynn R. Webster and Beth Dove.
Contributors: Dove, Beth.
Publisher: Sunrise River Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: North Branch, MN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780962481482
Subjects: Opioids -- Therapeutic use; Chronic pain -- Chemotherapy -- Complications; Opiod abuse -- Treatment; Opioids -- Side effects; Opioid-Related Disorders -- prevention & control; Analgesics, Opioid -- adverse effects; Analgesics, Opioid -- therapeutic use; Pain -- drug therapy; Risk Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Opioid abuse: prevalence and epidemiology; title: The neurobiology of addiction; title: Patient behavior and opioid abuse; title: Risk factors for opioid abuse; title: Assessing patients for the risk of opioid abuse; title: Monitoring patients to minimize opioid abuse; title: Legal issues of opioid prescribing; title: Emerging research on abuse-deterrent opioids.