Experts Worried Over Misuse of Painkillers
Reported May 04, 2010
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 patients 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