Opioid therapy for chronic pain.

By J. Ballantyne, J. Mao. New England Journal of Medicine, 2003

1,012 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Physiology

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In Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

1. D. Dowell
2. Tamara M. Haegerich
3. Anne Case
4. R. Chou
5. Angelie Singh
6. L. Manchikanti
7. Angus Deaton

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Anne Case
2. R. Chou
3. Angus Deaton
4. Tamara M. Haegerich
5. D. Dowell

In Physiology

1. Henry McQuay
2. Tamara M. Haegerich
3. D. Dowell

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• Pain Management: A Fundamental Human Right (2007, background): “First, there is considerable concern about opioid addiction, tolerance and hyperalgesia (76), including dose escalation and dependence.”
• Molecular Mechanisms of Opioid Receptor-Dependent Signaling and Behavior (2011, background): “There have been many attempts to develop better opioid drugs, but these have been largely unsuccessful because of our incomplete understanding about the development of tolerance to the analgesic effects.(6) Opioid tolerance is defined typically in the clinic as the need to increase a dose to maintai”
• Therapeutic opioids: a ten-year perspective on the complexities and complications of the escalating use, abuse, and nonmedical use of opioids. (2008, background): “Effectiveness of Opioid Treatment Multiple reviews have been published to evaluate the effectiveness of opioid therapy in chronic pain (6,7,32,62-65).”
• Opioids in chronic non‐cancer pain: systematic review of efficacy and safety (2004, background): “, 2000), development of tolerance to the analgesic effect (Ballantyne and Mao, 2003), addiction, and drug”
• CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 (2016, background): “Regarding duration of use, patients can experience tolerance and loss of effectiveness of opioids over time (119).”
• CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain (2016, background): “Regarding duration of use, patients can experience tolerance and loss of effectiveness of opioids over time (106).”
• Overdose and prescribed opioids: Associations among chronic non-cancer pain patients (2010, background): “However, large-scale, controlled studies evaluating the effectiveness and safety of long-term opioid therapy are not available (17, 31).”
• Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century (2015, background): “MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 62(26):537–542.”