Opioids—Current Problems and Solutions
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Anesthesiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 14375
Special Issue Editor
Interests: perioperative medicine; anesthesiology; acute pain; chronic pain; pain management; inflammation; postoperative outcomes; opioids
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Dear Colleagues,
Evidence suggests that opioid use, even acutely, could influence long-term outcomes. However, blindly reducing the prescription of opioids for pain is probably as inappropriate as overprescribing. In chronic pain, opioids have little place, and their introduction must be carefully discussed, especially because deprescription is not always easy. Finally, the influence of external factors, such as geographic and socioeconomic factors, is, at least in part, understudied.
This Special Issue aims to cover the remaining questions regarding current uses of opioids and opportunities to improve the quality of management. We particularly encourage the submission of research results centred on the patient, but also from mechanistic, multidisciplinary, and public health perspectives.
Prof. Dr. Patrice Forget
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- opioid
- acute pain
- chronic pain
- addiction
- substance use disorder
- opioid dependence
- opioid deprescribing
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