Medico-legal rounds: Medico-legal issues and breaches of "standards of medical care" in opioid tapering for alleged opioid addiction

Pain Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 135-142

  Fishbain, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberrant drug related behaviors; Addiction; Addictive behaviors; Drug toxicology screens; Expert witness; Medico legal; Pseudoaddiction; Standards of medical care; Suicide

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE SULFATE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PERCOCET; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; DEPRESSION; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN CLINIC; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SPONDYLITIS; STANDARD; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036347223     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4637.2002.02013.x     Document Type: Article

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