Managing addiction in advanced cancer patients: Why Bother?

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 229-234

  Passik, Steven D ^a   Theobald, Dale E ^a  

^a Oncology Symptom Control Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cancer; Chemical dependence; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FENTANYL; ILLICIT DRUG; LORAZEPAM; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; TRAZODONE;

ADDICTION; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; DRAIN; DRUG ABUSE; GROUP THERAPY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA METASTASIS; SMOKING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALCOHOLISM; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0034020564     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(00)00109-3     Document Type: Article

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