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Current State Of Opioid Therapy And Abuse, Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Adam M. Kaye, Alan David Kaye
Current State Of Opioid Therapy And Abuse, Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Adam M. Kaye, Alan David Kaye
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Currently, there is growing tension between the twin challenges of opioid therapy for chronic pain and adverse consequences of abuse, leading to multiple complications including respiratory failure and death. The recent data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shown continued escalation of prescription opioid use with opioid overdose deaths topping all previous estimations. Numerous policy initiatives, advisories, and guidelines have been advanced through the years to control the opioid epidemic. The strategies to prevent opioid abuse and to maintain opioid therapy when medically necessary fall into primary and secondary prevention categories. The primary prevention category is extremely …