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Opioid Prescriptions Differ Between Surgeons and Advanced Practice Clinicians

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PainRelief.com Interview with:
Caitlin Priest, MD
Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency
Department of Surgery
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Priest

PainRelief.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?

Response: Opioid pain medications are commonly provided after surgery to help with acute postsurgical pain, however, these prescriptions often exceed what is used by most patients, resulting in excess opioids. Advanced practice clinicians (nurse practitioners and physicians assistants) are becoming an increasingly important part of surgical care teams. Despite their growing role in providing care for surgical patients, there is little data on the perioperative opioid prescribing practices of advanced practice clinicians.

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Marijuana May Be Substituting for Opioids for Cancer-Related Pain Relief

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PainRelief.com Interview with:
Yuhua Bao, PhD
Department of Population Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York

Dr. Yuhua Bao

PainRelief.com: What is the background for this study?

Response: We know that opioid use is declining among cancer patients. We also know that marijuana use is increasing among cancer patients; this increase is related to the recent wave of medical marijuana legalization (adopted by 37 states and D.C. as of Feb 2022).

We do not know if medical marijuana legalization has led to changes in opioid use for cancer patients and what were the implications for cancer pain outcomes.

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