8th Interdisciplinary Pain and Opioid Seminar: Navigating the Opioid Use Conundrum – Use, Underuse, and Nonmedical Use
Clinical evidence supports the use of opioid analgesics as the gold standard to treat cancer-related pain. Unfortunately, the opioid crisis has brought renewed attention and scrutiny to opioid prescriptions, thereby creating a dilemma in patient management. Clinicians are required to carefully balance the judicious prescription of opioids with the risk of nonmedical opioid use. The […]