Associations between pain coping and opioid use: One-month follow-up results of a prospective study in a cohort of traumatic injury patients.

CONCLUSIONS: In the current sample of traumatic injury inpatients, findings indicated that a baseline measure of pain catastrophizing predicts ongoing opioid medication use and dosage at 1-month postdischarge from an inpatient trauma unit. PMID: 30044480 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - Category: Addiction Tags: J Opioid Manag Source Type: research