Opioid use Disorder for Prescription Opioid Medications

Norman S Miller and Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt
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Norman S Miller: Health Advocates, East Lansing, MI and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of George Augusta University, Georgia
Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt: Central Michigan University, Department Of Psychiatry, Saginaw

Global Journal of Addiction & Rehabilitation Medicine, 2017, vol. 2, issue 4, 53-60

Abstract: Why are opioid medications prescribed in large quantities and high frequency when there is little or no proven efficacy for their therapeutic value? Why are opioids the most commonly prescribed medication in the United States for the past decades when the adverse consequences continue to grow and mount? Why does the medical profession continue to prescribe opioids medications that result in increased pain and increased disability? Specifically, why do physicians continue to prescribe opioid medications despite widespread psychiatric morbidity and mortality? Prescription opioid addiction with its loss of control over use is the short answer.

Keywords: Journal of Addiction; Rehabilitation Medicine; Journal of Addiction & Rehabilitation Medicine; Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine; journal research on addiction; journal of physical therapy; rehabilitation impact factor; physical therapy rehabilitation articles; peer reviewed physical therapy journals; juniper publishers reivew; high impact journals in juniper publishers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/GJARM.2017.02.555594

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