Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use

National Academies Press. 07/2017 This 456-page document is the report of a committee asked to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education, and to identify actions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA ' s development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring. (Text)
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