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Barriers and facilitators encountered by family physicians prescribing opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: a qualitative study.
Abstract
Harms caused by prescription opioid analgesics (POAs) have been identified as a major international public health concern. Recent statistics show rising numbers of opioid-related deaths across Canada. However, Canadian family physicians appear to have inadequate resources to safely and effectively prescribe opioid analgesics to treat chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP).