Doctors inexperienced in the use of opioids do not know how to initiate, titrate, and withdraw the medication. Faced with undesirable outcomes in patients (e.g., respiratory depression after a rapid increase in dose), physicians have become reluctant to prescribe these medicines. Recent studies ...
For example, some information released by the FDA in its so-called "drug risk communications" has had immediate and strong impacts. These communications are meant to help prescribers make more informed decisions, but many of these risk communications had either delayed or no impact on health care...