Understand appropriate long-term use of opioids-seventeen years and counting

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 467-468

  Clark, Michael E ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; OPIATE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC AGENT ABUSE; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; LONG TERM CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; INTRACTABLE PAIN; TIME;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HUMANS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; TIME;

EID: 49649087000     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e318174bb81     Document Type: Editorial

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