Emotion regulation and pain catastrophizing influenced pain severity and interference in patients taking opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain.
(HealthDay News) — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online in Pediatrics, recommendations are presented for opioid prescribing for acute pain ...
Doctors prescribe opioid receptor agonist medications to treat chronic pain in some people. These drugs attach to proteins in the brain called opioid receptors, which help block pain signals and ...