Our goal is to provide high-quality, evidence-based resources for medical providers in order to reduce harm from opioids and improve treatment of chronic pain. If you think we are missing a valuable resource, please get in touch! Email Dr. Chubbuck at melissa@waybackhome.org .
websites
CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
COCA Webinars on Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (with excellent PDF slideshows)
Turn The Tide: Surgeon General’s Call to End the Opioid Crisis
Project ECHO Telemedicine Chronic Pain and Headache Consults
Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE)
Resources for Managing Pain and Opioids (includes patient handouts)
NIH Practice Resources (includes patient handouts)
Overdose Awareness Day info on overdoses
Morphine Equivalent Dose Calculator (because lower MED = fewer overdoses)
papers
opioid prescribing
CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2016
Opioid Prescribing After Overdose, 2016
The Effectiveness and Risks of Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain, 2015
NIH Position on Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2015
Pain Reliever and Heroin Epidemic in the US, 2015
Non-medical Prescription Opioid Use, 2015
American Academy of Neurology Position on Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2014
Annals Review of Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, 2014
Understanding Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose, 2014
Cautious, Responsible Opioid Prescribing (NYC Health Dept), 2012
Opioid Equianalgesic Tables: are they all equally dangerous? 2009
Efficacy of Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2008
opioid addiction and treatment
Review of Replacement Medications for Prescription Opioid Dependence, 2016
Prevention, Detection, Treatment, and Management of Prescription Opioid Dependence, 2016
Opioid Agonist Doses for Oxycodone and Morphine Dependence, 2016
PCP Perspectives on Opioid Epidemic, 2016
Problematic Use of Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2016
Misuse and Diversion of Opioid Substitution Treatment Medicines, 2016
Buprenorphine Prescribers, Addiction Treatment, and Prescription Monitoring, 2016
Nonmedical Use Associated With Heroin Initiation in Vets, 2015
Methadone vs Buprenorphine for Treatment in Pregnancy, 2015
Medication-assisted Treatment Review, 2014
Buprenorphine-Naloxone Treatment Review, 2014
Office-based Opioid Dependence Treatment, 2012
chronic pain and central sensitivity syndrome
Update on Central Sensitivity Syndrome, 2015
Psychosocial Factors in Central Sensitivity Syndrome, 2015
Chronic Pain Management: measurement-based step care solutions, 2012
Pain, Avoidance, and Suffering, 2009
Antidepressants for the Treatment of Chronic Pain, 2008
Fibromyalgia and Overlapping Disorders: the unifying concept of central sensitivity syndromes, 2007