Risk of opioid misuse in chronic non-cancer pain in primary care patients - a cross sectional study
Abstract Background Efforts to improve treatment of pain using opioids have to adequately take into account their therapeutic shortcomings which involve addictiveness. While there are no signs of an “opioid epidemic” in Germany similar to that in the US, there is little data on the prevalence of pre...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-06-01
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Series: | BMC Family Practice |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12875-018-0775-9 |