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Prescription Opioids: A Band-Aid For Chronic Low Back Pain, Rebekah Dunn
Prescription Opioids: A Band-Aid For Chronic Low Back Pain, Rebekah Dunn
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters
Pain is one of the most common reasons patients seek medical care in the outpatient clinic and emergency department setting.
• In the last decade, per the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), prescription drug abuse and overdose, specifically opioids, has become the leading cause of injury and deaths in the United States.
• “Opioids—primarily prescription pain relievers and heroin—are the main driver of overdose deaths and were involved in 28,647 deaths in 2014…opioid overdoses have quadrupled (an increase of 200%) since 2000” (Rudd et al. 2016).
• In 2016 the CDC established guidelines of clinical practice regarding management of …