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.

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(MENAFN- PR Newswire) MIAMI, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, VITAS Healthcare, the nation's leading provider of end-of-life care, launched the industry's first comprehensive opioid conversion tool ...

Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, has been waging war on prescription pain medications for years. His recently-published piece, "The Opioid ...

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 ...

Andrew Kolodny receives funding from the United States Food and Drug Administration for research on prescription drug monitoring programs. He is also the director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid ...