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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 ...

For far too many years, pain researchers and clinicians have relied on the concept of the morphine equivalent daily dosage (MEDD), or some variant of it, as a means of comparing the "relative ...

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 ...

This article provides an overview of the current treatment of opioid-related conditions, including treatments provided by general practitioners and by specialists in substance-use disorders. The ...