-
- Colin Malcolm Brown and Geoff Anderson.
- Drugs of Dependence Unit, Drug and Alcohol Services SA, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. colin.brown@health.sa.gov.au
- Aust Fam Physician. 2007 Jul 1; 36 (7): 559-60.
AbstractIt can be said that chronic pain patients comprise a large part of general practice. It would be accepted that general practitioners treat pain to the best of their abilities and, where indicated, use opioids for this purpose. After all, opioids have been used for the treatment of cancer and acute pain for many years. While a growing body of literature documents the trend of acceptance to prescribe opioids for the treatment of chronic noncancer pain, recent evidence suggests opioids may not achieve key outcomes of chronic pain management.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..