Understanding Pain and Medicines for Pain
Resources in this section
About pain
Opioids Aware: Acute, chronic, neuropathic and cancer pain and influences on the pain experience
Challenges of long term pain management
Opioids Aware: Highlighting the challenges of managing long term pain
Assessment of long term pain
Opioids Aware: Considerations when assessing long term pain
The role of medication in pain management
Opioids Aware: General principles on how opioids contribute to pain management
A stepped approach to pain prescribing
Opioids Aware: Why the analgesic ladder is unhelpful for treating long term pain
Other sections
Best professional practice
Opioids Aware: Best professional practice in safe prescribing, record keeping, patient safety and risk, reporting adverse effects
Clinical Use of Opioids
Opioids Aware: Clinical Use of Opioids
A structured approach to opioid prescribing
Opioids Aware: A structured approach to opioids prescribing
Opioids and addiction
Opioids Aware: opioids and addiction
Information for patients
Opioids Aware: Information for patients