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Opioids and the Law

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As physicians, one of the most important aspects of our job is the alleviation of pain, both acute and chronic. Opioids have been an integral part of easing pain for thousands of years and continue to play an important role in the medical landscape today. The downside of these often powerful medications is the possibility of those taking them to become addicted and divert them away from the intended use.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, H187, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA

    Selina Read M.D.

  2. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jill Eckert DO

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Pennsylvania State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 850, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA

    Jill Eckert DO

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  1. President and CEO, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, The Center for Pain Relief, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston, West Virginia, USA

    Timothy R. Deer

  2. Clinic Chief, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford Pain Medicine Center, Redwood City, CA, USA, and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Michael S. Leong

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

    Vitaly Gordin

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Read, S., Eckert, J. (2015). Opioids and the Law. In: Deer, T., Leong, M., Gordin, V. (eds) Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical Approaches. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1818-8_13

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