Background Advanced, life limiting illness and comorbid addiction/history of substance
abuse combine to present unique clinical challenges for professionals working in palliative …

Addiction issues have rarely been seen as a priority in palliative care. Yet unmanaged
substance use can make the diagnosis and treatment of pain and psychiatric symptoms …

Background The spectrum of substance use disorders (SUDs) is characterized by increasing
degrees of craving, compulsive use, loss of control, and continued use despite harm (see …

Pain is a common, feared, and often undertreated symptom faced by people with life-limiting
illnesses. Those with substance use disorder are at an even greater risk of inadequate pain …

Outcomes 1. Identify misconceptions regarding pain management in patients with opioid use
disorder. 2. Assess the need for further palliative medicine provider training in treating …

Palliative care with terminally ill drug addicts is a major challenge for medical professionals
to face. With growing problems of prescription drug abuse in this country, the problem is only …

D ame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement in the 1960s, coined the
term ''total pain,''which embodied the notion that pain, endured by those facing a life-limiting …

Along with a well-documented increase in opioid use disorder (OUD) and a rapidly
escalating rate of fatal overdose in North America, inadequate management of chronic pain …

THE SINGLE MOST REQUESTED educational topic by physicians concerning pain
surrounds differentiating the patient in pain versus the patient with a substance abuse …

Outcomes 1. Analyze and implement educational collaborations with addiction and pain
specialists 2. Examine and address barriers to practice changes in opioid prescribing …