New Opioid Program Raises Concerns for Chronic Pain Patients

With these new guidelines, chronic pain patients may have a tough time finding relief. From Practical Pain Management.

Attempts to curb opioid prescribing often “inconvenience patients and doctors, increase copays, and perhaps even increase [patients’] desire to look for drugs from other sources, such as spouses, friends, or on the street,” Jeffrey Fudin, PharmD, DAIPM, FCCP, FASHP.