Physicians involved in cancer pain management treat thousands of patients with opioids,
whose effective analgesia improves overall functioning. Side effects generally are tolerable …

Recognition and treatment of pain in the emergency department has undergone an
evolution in the past decade. Emergency clinicians, educators, and researchers have begun …

Social workers from clinical, academic, and research settings met in 2002 for a national
Social Work Leadership Summit on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Participants placed the …

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 …

Concerns are often raised regarding the credibility of patients' report of pain and this
concern is heightened among individuals with AIDS, where many patients have a history of …

The clinical assessment of drug-taking behaviors in medically ill patients with pain is
complex and may be hindered by the lack of empirically derived information about such …

The assessment of addiction-related outcomes is crucial to the management of chronic pain
with opioid drugs in all patients. Pain management for patients who have concomitant drug …

The increasingly common practice of long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain
must be guided by ongoing assessment of four types of outcomes: pain relief, function, side …

In the oncology community, opioids recently have become the cornerstone of cancer pain
management. This has led to a rapid increase in opioid prescribing in an effort to address …

Approximately 50% of patients diagnosed with cancer die because of progressive disease.
Psychotropic drugs are frequently used for the management of physical and psychosocial …