Managing Pain in Patients with Substance Use Disorder
Visit this site to gain information on substance use disorders, SUDs in patients with cancer, and pain management in patients with SUDs.
Challenges in Using Opioids to Treat Pain in Persons with Substance Use Disorders
This article discusses the clinical presentation of pain and its synergies with substance use disorders, evaluation and treatment of pain that co-occurs with substance use disorders, and provides guidelines for ...
Stepwise Approach: Management of Acute Pain in the Patient Chronically Using Opioids
This resource will provide a stepwise approach to managing acute pain in patients chronically using opioids.
Literature Review: Acute Pain Management in Opioid Dependent Patients
This article provides a review of literature on the management of acute pain in patients with long-term opioid agonists.
How to Guide for Primary Care Physicians: Treating Pain in Patients with a Substance Use Disorder
This article provides a foundation for expanding chronic pain guidelines in the area of treating patients with a substance use disorder. This summary serves as a how-to-guide for primary care ...
Screening for Substance Use in the Pain Management Setting
Visit this site to access information on screening pain patients for substance use disorders and action to take if you receive a positive screen.
SAMHSA: A Treatment Improvement Protocol: Managing Chronic Pain in Adults With or in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders
Access this detailed 128-page Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) (TIP 54) for best-practice guidelines on the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Topics include: patient assessment, chronic pain management, managing ...
NIH/NIDA: How Can Prescription Drug Misuse Be Prevented?
Information on how physicians, their patients, and pharmacists all can play a role in identifying and preventing nonmedical use of prescription drugs.
How opioid use disorder occurs
This resource from the Mayo Clinic describes how even short term opioid use can lead to addiction.