Meeting Reviews Progress On Prescription Opioid Misuse
More than 400 researchers and clinicians gathered in Bethesda, Maryland March 5-6 to discuss a growing public health challenge: balancing appropriate pain treatment with efforts to minimize prescription opioid misuse. NIDA co-sponsored the conference, "Pain, Opioids, and Addiction: An Urgent Problem for Doctors and Patients," with the American Medical Association and in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium. About 50 million people suffer from chronic pain in the United States, and opioids are the most powerful medications available for most types of pain. However