Attitudes Toward Opioids and Risk of Misuse/Abuse in Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain Receiving Long-term Opioid Therapy
Attitudes Toward Opioids and Risk of Misuse/Abuse in Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain Receiving Long-term Opioid Therapy
G. Vargas-Schaffer,J. Cogan
2018 · DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnw338
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 12 Citations
TLDR
Despite public opinion, patients treated with LtOT for CNCP and followed in a tertiary care pain center are at low risk for opioid misuse/abuse, according to a descriptive epidemiological study.