Positioning Opioid Therapy: Trends over 20 years

Pain Specialists

Increasing use of long-term opioid therapy

• Slowly growing evidence base
• More sophisticated pharmacologic understanding
• Reassurance from regulators and law enforcement
• Influence of broad movement to improve acute pain and cancer pain treatment
• Pressure from the media
• Influence of industry

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