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Volume 145, Issue 3 , Pages 267-268 , October 2009

Opioids for chronic pain in patients with substance abuse: Too much, too little or just right?

Received 27 May 2009 ,Accepted 30 June 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00384-4

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.036

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