Fixing pain management could help us solve the opioid crisis
- Written by Meredith Craigie, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Pain Medicine, ANZCA, Flinders University
Opioids don't work for chronic pain, and can make it worse in the long-term.from www.shutterstock.com
Australia is facing a critical public health issue of poorly managed pain. The combination of poor health outcomes, inappropriate prescribing for pain and non-prescription use of opioids has resulted in opioid-related deaths surpassing the national...