Medical experts have forwarded a set of guiding principles for the physicians,
which they would need to adhere to, while they are prescribing opiod medications
to take care of concerns related to the misusage of the drugs by patients.
Supervision for this class of treatment for chronic, non-cancer pain, which
comprises of drugs including morphine, codeine and OxyContin, emerged in a
report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The report recommends that the easy availability of these painkillers have been
associated with a spike in opiod associated casualty cases.
It
demonstrates the 2007 statistics, which show that Canada has the third-highest
consumption rate for each capita of the narcotics in the world, which is second
only to the United States and Germany.
The report is of the suggestion that prescribing opiods to people that are
suffering from chronic, non cancer pain should be carried out in the safest way,
so that, it does not pose a threat to patient’s health.
James Wright, Managing Director of the B. C.-based Therapeutics Initiative said
that the guiding principle could prove to be really effective.
Source : topnews.us
