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David Unger, MD

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Special Feature / December 2018

Safe prescribing of opioids and sedatives: It’s about primary prevention

Prescribing opioids for pain has not always been as controversial as it is today. In the 1980s and ’90s, the harms of prescribing opioid medications for noncancer pain were not fully recognized. We now know that when it... Read More

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