PAIN
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 245-246, 31 August 2008

Increases in opioid medication use: Balancing the good with the bad

Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging, University of Maryland Baltimore, 220 Arch Street, 12th Floor, Room 01-210, Baltimore, MA 21201, United States. Tel.: +1 410 706 4352

Received 14 May 2008; received in revised form 22 May 2008; accepted 22 May 2008. published online 26 June 2008.

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PII: S0304-3959(08)00280-7

doi:10.1016/j.pain.2008.05.017

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PAIN
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 245-246, 31 August 2008