Journal of pain & palliative care pharmacotherapy
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2005
Evidence-based pain management and palliative care in issue three for 2004 of The Cochrane Library.
The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly. Issue three for 2004 of the library was published in July 2004. The Cochrane Library now contains 3559 complete reviews and protocols of reviews. ⋯ This edition of the Library contains the results of an extensive search for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on EMBASE. The latest library contains 75 new reviews, five of which are considered relevant to practitioners in pain and palliative care. References are published in the same format as the citation for Cochrane reviews.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2005
Non-medical use of OxyContin Tablets in the United States.
The non-medical use of OxyContin (controlled release oxycodone HCl) Tablets has been widely cited in media reports often leaving the impression that OxyContin was a source of primary or new onset drug abuse. However, no published research to date has examined the drug use history of those reporting non-medical use of OxyContin. This study examined rates of non-medical OxyContin use in the United States and the demographic and drug use profiles of those reporting such use, based on data from the 1999, 2000, and 2001 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. ⋯ Compared to those reporting non-medical use of prescription analgesics other than OxyContin, non-medical OxyContin users were more likely to show a pattern of more serious drug abuse: they used multiple drugs, used needles for drug injection, and had higher rates of abuse and dependence. Approximately 83% of non-medical OxyContin users reported having used illicit drugs or other prescription medications non-medically prior to their first non-medical use of prescription analgesics. Even compared to those who reported non-medical use of other prescription analgesics, non-medical OxyContin users already had a more significant pattern of drug abuse before they began using prescription analgesics for non-medical purposes, suggesting that non-medical use of OxyContin is rarely the initiating factor leading to the abuse of other drugs.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2005
Pain as a human right: the 2004 Global Day Against Pain.
On October 11, 2004, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC) held a Global Day against Pain campaign to promote pain relief as a human right. International leaders in pain management and public health participated in the full day program that took place in Geneva Switzerland and was simultaneously broadcast around the world through the Word Wide Web. The declaration and statements that were released and announced, and selected contents of the program are summarized in this report.