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Interventions for the reduction of prescribed opioid use in chronic non‐cancer pain
Author(s) -
Whitehead Phyllis B.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.21879
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , palliative care , virginia tech , medicine , pain medicine , citation , pain management , alternative medicine , cancer pain , chronic pain , family medicine , nursing , physical therapy , library science , psychiatry , pathology , anesthesiology , computer science
Despite long-term, high-dose opioid use individuals with chronic noncancer pain have not had effective pain relief. For those individuals without good pain management, reduction or cessation of their prescribed opioid doses may be the desired outcome of both patient and clinician. Initialising reduction of opioid use is clinically challenging as well as difficult to achieve and maintain for many reasons including withdrawal and other side effects. Chronic pain is a prominent health problem and requires multi-modal interventions in order to reduce opioid doses. Therefore, nurses need to understand the challenges of reducing opioid usage when caring for chronic pain patients so they can advocate for the safe and effective pain management for their patients (Eccleston et al., 2017; Weber, 2015).