Opioid Therapy in the 21st Century

by Howard S. Smith

Over the last thirty years, the concern of Pain Medicine practitioners about the potential for their patients to develop a dependence on opioids has left opioid therapy as a largely underutilized treatment. While there is no simple answer to chronic pain, opioids remain the only class of drugs capable of providing relief to patients experiencing serious pain. Opioid Therapy in the 21st Century, Second Edition fills a dearth of clinical knowledge about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199844976
• ISBN13: 9780199844975
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"