Canadian Guideline for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain

3/11/2013

The Canadian Guideline is presented in two separate documents:
Part A (Executive Summary and Background)and Part B (Recommendations for Practice). PDF versions posted on this website are the official Canadian Guideline documents. Web formatted content is the unofficial version of the Guideline. While best efforts have been made to ensure accuracy and consistency with the official documents, if any discrepancies exist in the web format, content of the PDF version shall apply.

http://nationalpaincentre.mcmaster.ca/opioid/

Please feel free to download the PDF files of the Canadian Guideline documents.
http://nationalpaincentre.mcmaster.ca/opioid/documents.html

1 Comment

Greg Horn

7/11/2013 09:26:16 am

I have had over 20 abdominal surgical procedures out of which about 10 were sort of botched, I am a 49 yr. white male living in constant or intractable pain for over 20 yrs. and though I have had very hard time with keeping doctors just over the simple fact(that someone died of a overdose in the area and it being pushed through the media about how bad opioids are. Believe me when I tell you I know what it feels like to lose someone close to you, because of overdose(accidental but still lost)which was my wife. I have tried to take myself off these meds a few times only to wake up in a hospital room and then pumping me with morphine to try to get my kidneys to stop failing, each time I have had something go wrong when I did not have the opioids like I said renal failure and other physical problems all due to stopping of my meds. It always has me on a edge because I think if I lose another doctor I could not take it anymore, I have been cut off from my meds for all sort of whatever the doctors decided to cut me off and find a new dr. and I am running scared because I know what my body will do if I go without these meds opoites, just a year ago a dr. started cursing me and also physically to body beat me if I did not shut my mouth, but when I walked out on him I walked out of all my meds, and soon after the withdrawal started I did not want to be deviant but I had to because of the severe pain sickness from withdrawal. And my body blood pressure went up to a 260 over 160, that's right it doesn't seem like I would of survived they put me in the hospital checked my heart and then the cardiologist came in and told me it was not my heart that had my blood pressure so high it was due to the pain and it triggered my nervous system, hence the high blood pressure he said every time they gave me morphine and Ativan my blood pressure dropped. this should not be we should have the meds, without provocation. any Ideals Greg Horn
email:gdub1@insightbb.com
by the way I am on disability all over problems that they cannot fix,
and I am tired of having to bowel down just to stay alive.

Canadian Guideline for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain

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