Opioids For Chronic Pain
Submitted by Dr Al-Salihi on
The use of opioids to assuage end-of-life cancer pain is the incontrovertible standard of care. The use of opioids to treat chronic non-malignant pain, defined as pain that has lasted longer than 3 months, which is the time necessary for normal tissue healing, is the subject of debate.
Chronic non-malignant pain in this post will be called chronic pain.