Sentences with phrase «effective use of opioids»
The safe and effective use of opioids for the management of chronic pain is complex.
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«Use of Narcan as soon as an overdose victim is identified is the most effective strategy for preventing mortality from opioid overdoses,» Burstein said.
«Rather than educating youth about the dangers of opioids, focusing on getting hardened drug dealers poisoning our children off the streets, and offering addicts effective treatment, we will instead signal to users that addiction is a manageable condition and you can partake in illegal opioid use nearly risk - free.»
The skill and time needed for effective use of medications for opioid use disorders «are not generally available to primary care doctors.»
Psychosocial interventions, used together with effective medications, are a key part of recommended treatment for opioid addiction.
They write, «This Practice Guideline was developed to assist in the evaluation and treatment of opioid use, and in the hope that, using this tool, more physicians will be able to provide effective treatment.»
The high proportion of SSDI recipients who are chronic opioid users — in many, at high and very high daily doses — «is worrisome in light of established and growing evidence that intense opioid use to treat non-malignant [non-cancer] pain may not be effective and may confer important risk,» write Dr Nancy Elizabeth Morden and colleagues of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, N.H.
But I want to acknowledge what my colleagues would say, many of them — that 25 years of research has yet to show the evidence that long - term opioid use is effective for chronic pain.
Effective treatment of this pain without using opioids is a top priority for cancer research.