Cindi Scheib, Harrisburg, PA.
The American Academy of Pain Medicine: “AAPM Facts and Figures on Pain.”
American Academy of Family Physicians: “How does the rescheduling of hydrocodone combination products affect you and your patients?”
CDC: “Prescribing Opioids.”
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: “CMS proposes changes to outpatient hospital payment plans for 2017.”
Daniel Tobin, MD, associate professor of drugs, Yale University School of Medicine; medical director, Adult Primary Care Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, Saint Raphael Campus, New Haven, CT.
National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teachers: “How Do Opioids Work?”
Anesthesiology: “Occurrence, reversal, and prevention of opioid-induced respiratory depression.”
National Institute on Drug Abuse: “Promising progress in the search for safer opioids.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States: “A novel orvinol analogue, BU08028, as a safe opioid analgesic with no risk of abuse in primates.”
CDC: CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain – United States, 2016.
New England Journal of Medicine: “Opioid abuse in chronic pain – misconceptions and strategies for pain relief.”
Joji Suzuki, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.
Ellen Edens, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, associate fellow in addiction psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; chief psychiatrist, VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Christopher Jones, PharmD, pharmacist; Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory.