Clinical and neuroscience evidence supports the critical importance of patient expectations and agency in opioid tapering

Pain. 2022 May 1;163(5):824-826. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002443.

Authors

Beth D Darnall¹, Howard L Fields²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
² Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco CA, United States.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid* / therapeutic use
Chronic Pain*
Humans
Motivation
Primary Health Care

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid