Effectiveness and Safety of High-Dose Opioid Therapy
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2019) | Viewed by 5907
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pain medicine, occupational medicine, public health, systematic reviews
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic non-cancer pain is very common in adults, occurring in approximately 20% of the population. The therapeutic use of opioids, especially for pain that is not due to cancer, and the use at high opioid doses, has been the subject of a growing and intense debate. Still, persons in the US and Canada are the highest per capita consumers of opioids globally, and a range of adverse effects and harms have been associated with opioid use, including addiction, overdose, and death.
This Special Issue is open to scientific studies that contribute further to this debate by addressing the efficacy and safety of high-dose opioids. This Special Issue will consider the following types of studies: clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, case series, case reports, experimental studies, simulation studies, policy studies, opinion papers, narrative reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Sebastian Straube
Dr. Charl Els
Guest Editors
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