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April 5, 2012 — Opioid rotation — switching from one opioid drug or route of administration to another to improve the outcome — is largely to blame for the growing number of unintentional deaths ...
The FDA is conducting a workshop to discuss the science (lack thereof, really) of Morphine Milligram Equivalents as it applies to the atrocious CDC 2016 Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. Public comments ...
In a letter to the FDA, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has addressed public health concerns associated with the use of equianalgesic opioid conversion tables and has recommended a staged ...
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2006;40(7):1327-1335. The classification of opioid analgesics may be based on 3 different schemes: (1) analog class (phenanthrene, phenylpiperidine, diphenylheptane), (2 ...
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Interview with Dr. Eduardo Bruera on the treatment of pain during a severe shortage of parenteral opioids. 9m 33s Download The opioid-overdose epidemic now causes more than 30,000 deaths per year in ...