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Krebs EE. Opioid therapy for chronic pain. Pain, Opioids, and Addiction education series. 2015 Feb 10.
Objectives 1) Recognize potential benefits and harms of longterm opioid therapy for chronic pain. 2) Describe gaps in the evidence for long-term opioid treatment of common chronic pain conditions. 3) Identify risk factors for opioid-related harm Focus of this talk Chronic pain Pain that persists and interferes with function Not associated with life-threatening/terminal illness Common conditions: chronic back pain and OA pain Opioids Natural and synthetic relatives of morphine Tramadol is an atypical opioid Long-term Prescribed for pain that is not expected to resolve Duration = months years decades lifetime?
