Introduction Pain is one of the most commonly reported symptoms in people living with
HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). However, wide ranges of pain prevalence have been reported, making …

OBJECTIVE: Identify the risk factors for prescription opioid misuse among patients taking
prescription opioids to deal with chronic pain. METHODS: We examined the literature for a …

Objectives: The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) is a short, self-administered questionnaire that
was developed for use in cancer patients. While most empirical research with the BPI has …

The Brief Pain Inventory is a comprehensive instrument for pain assessment and has been
validated in several languages. A validated German version was not available until now …

Opioids are widely prescribed for non-cancer pain conditions (NCPC), but there have been
no large observational studies in actual clinical practice assessing patterns of opioid use …

Pain is common among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), but little is known about
chronic pain in socioeconomically disadvantaged HIV-infected populations with high rates of …

CONTEXT: HIV infection has become a manageable chronic disease. There are few studies
of pain and symptoms in the current treatment era. OBJECTIVES: Our primary objective was …

Objectives: This study evaluated the prevalence and correlates of aberrant drug-taking
behaviors in two populations: patients with HIV-related pain and a history of substance …

Background: Fabry disease is an X linked lysosomal storage disease caused by deficiency
of the lysosomal enzyme α-galactosidase A. This leads to accumulation of …

Background People who use drugs have a significantly higher prevalence of chronic non-
cancer pain compared to the general population, yet little is known about how various policy …