JAMA Internal Medicine: Minimally Invasive/Robotic Surgery Topic Collection http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:49:02 GMT Silverchair editor@archinte.jamanetwork.com webmaster@archinte.jamanetwork.com Long-term Analgesic Use: Sometimes Less Is Not More http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1309525 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Krishnamoorthy V, Bhalla P. <span class="paragraphSection">We read with interest the article by Alam et al. The investigators reported that the risk of long-term opioid use is greatly increased when prescribed in the first 7 days following a low-pain short-stay surgical procedure and suggest that “long-term postoperative analgesic use may best be addressed by preventing its initiation.”<sup>(p428)</sup></span> 172 15 1189 1190 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2085 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1309525