Pain Medicine
Reports from E.T. Lewis and co-researchers add new data to research in pain medicine
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, July 19th, 2010
"With the growth in opioid therapy for the treatment of chronic pain, health care providers have focused their attention on avoiding over-use of opioid medications, specifically to avoid addiction, dependency, and other misuse. Qualitative and quantitative reviews of medication adherence, in contrast, focus primarily on why patients under-use or do not take their medications as prescribed and find nonadherence rates of approximately 25%," scientists in the United States report.
"To identify the prevalence of under-use of opioid medications and the reasons and implications of under-use. As part of a variety of structured assessments, subjects were asked detailed...
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