April 5, 2012 — Opioid rotation — switching from one opioid drug or route of administration to another to improve the outcome — is largely to blame for the growing number of unintentional deaths ...

All opioid equivalencies should be considered approximations only and can be affected by interpatient variability, type of pain (eg, acute vs. chronic), chronic administration, tolerance, etc.

New Orleans, Louisiana — Opioid analgesic conversion guidelines from professional societies and federal or state governments are inconsistent, and the sources for these recommendations are riddled ...

In a letter to the FDA, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has addressed public health concerns associated with the use of equianalgesic opioid conversion tables and has recommended a staged ...

Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to ...

The term "opioid" has become a dirty word. "Synthetic" is also dirty. When putting them together you get something that is dirty but also confusing -- and probably intentionally so. There's no ...

There are studies that show that once patients develop an opioid-use disorder, and if they don’t use medication to treat it, there is about a 90 percent risk of relapse in the first year after detox.