Opioid prescription in people with mental health problems - What is the way forward? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 368-369

  Tölle, Thomas R ^a   Sprenger, Till ^a   Valet, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DYSTHYMIA; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; OPIATE ADDICTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SHORT SURVEY; TEAMWORK;

EID: 34447264451     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0525     Document Type: Short Survey

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