… Hospice and palliative care professionals struggle … abuse and diversion in particular, palliative
care professionals responsible … with substance abuse or drug diversion and develop case …

… palliative care programs with regard to treatment of patients and family members at risk for
substance abuse and diversion. … for opioid misuse in a palliative care clinic. Am J Hosp Palliat …

… with aberrant opioid use. In this article, we report on two patients with … opioid-related
behavior seen at our palliative care clinic. A high suspicion of opioid abuse, misuse, or diversion …

… that a significant minority of patients receiving palliative care may demonstrate problematic
opioid use, both relating to their own use and to diversion of these medications. This is …

… aggravated the potential harms concerning addiction, diversion and mortality (20). Some
opioid advocates from the pain and palliative care community who were acting as advisors of …

… goal of all hospice and palliative care. The team caring for Mr J needs to develop a plan of
care to identify and address the issues of pain and of the possibility of opioid diversion. The …

… physicians are hesitant to prescribe opioids to patients with legitimate needs. … palliative
care. This article recommends the intelligent use of public policy to alleviate the opioid diversion …

… We recommend that palliative care programmes talk to concerned governmental authorities,
… opioids, and communicate with local news media to increase awareness of palliative care …

… opioid diversion and its contribution to the opioid epidemic are well known nationally, existing
even within hospice care… opioids may be a critical factor in reducing opioid diversion. In …

… palliative care clinics. For a group of patients in our outpatient palliative care clinics, we
collected information about opioids … palliative care outpatient services resulted in better opioid …