Primary Care Patients with Drug Use Report Chronic Pain and Self-Medicate with Alcohol and Other Drugs

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 486-491

  Alford, Daniel P ^a   German, Jacqueline S ^a   Samet, Jeffrey H ^a,b   Cheng, Debbie M ^a,b   Lloyd Travaglini, Christine A ^b   Saitz, Richard ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic pain; primary care; substance use

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; STREET DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG MISUSE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SELF MEDICATION; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG MISUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SELF MEDICATION; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84955254347     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3586-5     Document Type: Article

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