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Commentary: Are Emergency Nurses Sbirt-Ready To Assist Vets And Other Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Patients?, Dorothy J. Moore, Danette K. Dutra
Commentary: Are Emergency Nurses Sbirt-Ready To Assist Vets And Other Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Patients?, Dorothy J. Moore, Danette K. Dutra
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Emergency Department (ED) Registered Nurses (RNs) spend significant time treating chronic pain patients. Chronic pain affects up to 100 million Americans (Simon, 2012) and as much as 30% of all opioid pain medications in the United States (US) are prescribed from EDs (Todd, Cowan, Kelly, & Homel, 2010). Abuse of these prescription drugs is America’s fastest growing drug problem (Paulozzi, Jones, Mack, & Rudd, 2011). For veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation New Dawn (OND), chronic non-cancer pain is the most frequent diagnosis (Higgins et al., 2014), and it is closely associated addiction disease. …