Reply to: Caution using the new “no pain no gain” approach

To the Editor, We thank the correspondent for his comments on Something For Pain and appreciate his concerns that as physicians grapple with the harm caused by imprudent opioid prescribing-and the challenges in managing patients struggling with opioid addiction and chronic pain-that in reaction, pai...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2017-10, Vol.35 (10), p.1564-1564
Main Authors: Strayer, Reuben J., MD, Motov, Sergey M., MD, Nelson, Lewis, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analgesia
Analgesics
Analgesics, Opioid
Chronic pain
Emergency
Humans
Narcotics
Opioid
Opioid addiction
Opioid dependence
Opioid-Related Disorders
Pain
Patients
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Summary:To the Editor, We thank the correspondent for his comments on Something For Pain and appreciate his concerns that as physicians grapple with the harm caused by imprudent opioid prescribing-and the challenges in managing patients struggling with opioid addiction and chronic pain-that in reaction, pain will be under-treated and the doctor-patient relationship damaged. [...]to a “one size fits all approach,” we advocate for an analgesic strategy based on an explicit consideration of the likelihood that opioid administration or prescription will benefit or harm each individual patient in pain.
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2017.04.007