Use of Opioid Analgesics for the Treatment of Chronic Noncancer Pain - A Consensus Statement and Guidelines from the Canadian Pain Society, 2002

The original document was approved by the Executive of the Canadian Pain Society on November 18, 1998 and the updated version was approved on November 5, 2002. 1Alcohol & Drug Treatment Program, Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, Ontario; 2Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation/Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; 3Department of Anaesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; St Michael’s Hospital Pain Clinic, Toronto, Ontario and Pain Management Programme, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Programme, Toronto, Ontario; 4Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; 5Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta; 6Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 7Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences and Oncology, University of Western Ontarion, London, Ontario Correspondence: Dr RD Jovey, Alcohol & Drug Treatment Program, Credit Valley Hospital, Suite G-01, 2300 Eglinton Avenue West, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 2V8. Telephone 905-813-4402, fax 905-567-0241, e-mail drjovey@sympatico.ca. RD Jovey, J Ennis, J Gardner-Nix, B Goldman, H Hays, M Lynch, D Moulin. Use of opioid analgesics for the treatment of chronic noncancer pain – A consenus statement and guidelines from the Canadian Pain Society, 2002. Pain Res Manage 2003;8(Suppl A):3A-14A.