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Safe Opioid Prescribing


Introduction

Generally opioids should be completely avoided in chronic, non-cancer pain

 The Good and the Bad!
  • Morphine relieves pain
    • It doesn’t KILL Pain
    • It helps people cope
  • More people die from medically prescribed opioids in America than on the roads
  • Morphine stops people breathing if used incorrectly
  • Morphine makes people vomit
  • Morphine makes people itch
  • Morphine makes people constipated

Please remember to chart laxatives and anti-emetics

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