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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Main Authors: Johannes Maximilian Just, Linda Bingener, Markus Bleckwenn, Rieke Schnakenberg, Klaus Weckbecker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:BMC Family Practice
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12875-018-0775-9