Pain Management with Opioids

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Pain management is a broad category of medicine that incorporates multiple disciplines, assessment tools, diagnostic strategies, therapeutic modalities, and treatment philosophies. This module will focus only on practical applications of one therapeutic tool, opioid medications. All opioids act primarily through the mu opioid receptor to inhibit the transmission of pain impulses to the central nervous system. There is no evidence that one opioid has greater activity or a more favorable side effect profile than any other; however, one opioid may be more suitable to an individual patient than others.

This module is also for U-M Department of Family Medicine Residents on the CFM1 rotation.

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Note: This module was originally developed by U-M Department of Family Medicine faculty member, Phillip E. Rodgers, M.D., in 2009. It is also maintained by Dr. Rodgers. Last updated: April 2014.

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