For which type of chronic pain syndrome are CAM therapies likely to be useful in patients using opioids?
The issue, then, isn't so much how we stop people from using opioids, but instead how we make sure that these drugs bring us the most benefits with the fewest harms.
In China, the company has distributed cartoon videos about using opioids for pain relief; other promotional literature cites the erroneous claim that rates of addiction are negligible.
Sullivan told me that in poor, rural regions doctors are using opioids to treat a "complex mixture of physical and emotional distress".
Highly regarded doctors, like Russell Portenoy, then a pain specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, spoke out about the problem of untreated chronic pain — and the wisdom of using opioids to treat it.
Doctors began using opioids more liberally in the seventies, after the emergence of the palliative-care movement, the first branch of medicine to make the relief of suffering its primary aim.
We avoided using opioids in these patients.
This is particularly critical when using opioids.
At discharge, 3.3%% (55/1684) of ICU patients and 5.7%% (956/16736) of surgery patients were chronically using opioids.
As mentioned before, we avoid using opioids in these patients, the reason why these drugs are not represented here.
The 11 subjects using opioids at study entry had smaller reductions in pain than those not using concomitant opioids.
