Background Chronic pain is common and can be challenging to manage. Despite increased
utilisation of opioids, the safety and efficacy of long‐term use of these compounds for chronic …

This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those
prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged≥ 18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for …

Objectives To describe the evidence from Cochrane Reviews and overviews regarding the
efficacy and safety of high‐dose opioids (defined as 200 mg morphine equivalent or more …

Methods: Literature searches were performed using PubMed, EBSCO, Cochrane Review,
and Google Scholar without publication date limits. Of 264,617 articles' titles screened and …

Objective: Prescription opioid and benzodiazepine drug use, which has risen significantly,
can affect worker health. Exploration of the scientific literature assessed (1) …

Background Clinicians regularly prescribe opioids to manage acute and chronic cancer
pain, frequently to address acute postoperative pain, and occasionally to manage chronic …

Objective: This large, cross-sectional study calculated prevalence of disorders and assessed
factors associated with self-reported lifetime crashes. Methods: Truck drivers (n= 797) …

Background Construction workers are among the segments of the US population that were
hit hardest by the opioid prescription and overdose deaths in the past decades. Factors that …

This state-of-the-art review comprehensive covers the benefits and risks of tapering opioids.
The review discusses opioid strategies and pitfalls that may occur during tapering. The …

Objective: To appreciate the impact of the opioid epidemic in workers, we described opioid
prescription patterns in a US industrial cohort over a 10-year period and assessed predictors …