Chronic pain, including chronic low back and leg pain are prominent causes of disability worldwide. While patient management aims to reduce pain and improve daily function, prescription of opioids remains widespread despite significant adverse effects. T
While illicit drug toxicity deaths are known to be driven by potent opioids including fentanyl and its analogues, half of all Canadians dying of opioid overdose also had a detectable level of stimulants; [2] furthermore, stimulant use is now more commonly reported than opioid use at BC’s ...
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There was no relation found between any comorbidities, for example, endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (ICD 10: code E) and COVID-19 (ICD-10: code U07.1), and prevalence of probable neuropathic pain. In addition, there was neither a statistically significant difference between the ...
3 In this situation, treatment of pain and anxiety with benzodiazepines and/or opioids has been recommended.3 Although we did not assess the indication for these medications, our finding that patients with COPD received less palliative medications raises concern about unmet palliative care needs. ...
We compared how WHO's ICD-10 and proposed ICD-11 and the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV and DSM-5 classifi ed individuals in a community-based sample of Australians with chronic non-cancer pain for which opioids have been prescribed....
Address correspondence to:Joseph Tkacz, MS, 9200 Rumsey Rd, Ste 215, Columbia, MD 21045. E-mail: joseph.tkacz@healthanalytic.com.1. Manchikanti L, Fellows B, Ailinani H, Pampati V. Therapeutic use, abuse, and nonmedical use of opioids: a ten-year perspective. Pain Physician. 2010;13...
Availability and appropriate use of opioids for palliative care as well as for chronic non-cancer pain Opioids are the mainstay of treatment of advanced cancer pain [54, 61, 63, 64]. They also have a role in selected patients with chronic, moderate to severe non-cancer pain, although the...
Overuse of opioids: The efficacy of opioids for musculoskeletal pain management is questionable for both chronic and acute pain conditions. The early use of opioids has been associated with poorer outcomes in LBP [19]. Also, it is suggested that the use of opioids should be cautiously limited ...
Chronic pain complicates many diseases and is notoriously difficult to treat. In search of new therapeutic targets, pannexin-1 (Panx1) channels have sparke