Opioid Use and Pain Expectations in a Mixed Herniorrhaphy Cohort

Social pain and opioid use.

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Associations between medical cannabis and prescription opioid use in chronic pain patients: A preliminary cohort study

BACKGROUND Current levels and dangers of opioid use in the U.S. warrant the investigation of harm-reducing treatment alternatives. PURPOSE A preliminary, historical, cohort study was used to examine the association between enrollment in the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program (MCP) and opioid prescription use. METHODS Thirty-seven habitual opioid using, chronic pain patients (mean age = 54 ...

Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and overdose: a cohort study.

BACKGROUND Long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain is becoming increasingly common in community practice. Concomitant with this change in practice, rates of fatal opioid overdose have increased. The extent to which overdose risks are elevated among patients receiving medically prescribed long-term opioid therapy is unknown. OBJECTIVE To estimate rates of opioid overdose and their ...

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