title: Opioid side effects, addiction, and anti-inflammatory medications.
abstract: Patients in pain often fear medications prescribed or recommend to them by their clinicians. Fear of side effects can contribute greatly to medication non-adherence (noncompliance). Patients often have fears that exceed the potential problems with which their medications are associated. Questions and answers relating to the side effects and the risk of addiction associated with opioids are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California at Davis. smfishman@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Scott M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Fishman
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D009021:Morphine Dependence / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010098:Oxycodone / Q000009:adverse effects; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D010098:Oxycodone