Clinician Identification of Appropriate Long-term Opioid Therapy Candidacy

Geller AS. — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Sullivan and Ballantyne appropriately scorned indiscriminate long-term opioid therapy, since considerable numbers of patients receive these potentially dangerous agents but only rarely return to work. Characteristically, patients with high psychiatric comorbidity self-select as “requiring” opioids as well as disability from work, and the authors correctly report that most are not viable opioid candidates, given greater abuse and death risks.

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Clinician Identification of Appropriate Long-term Opioid Therapy Candidacy