For far too many years, pain researchers and clinicians have relied on the concept of the morphine equivalent daily dosage (MEDD), or some variant of it, as a means of comparing the "relative ...

In a letter to the FDA, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has addressed public health concerns associated with the use of equianalgesic opioid conversion tables and has recommended a staged ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2006;40(7):1327-1335. The classification of opioid analgesics may be based on 3 different schemes: (1) analog class (phenanthrene, phenylpiperidine, diphenylheptane), (2 ...

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1:50 The overdose crisis has worsened, have politicians noticed? A wide variety of strategies must be implemented across Ontario to tackle the opioid crisis that has worsened significantly during the ...