title: NSAIDs or opioids, damned if you do, damned if you don't?: evidence-based selections to optimize therapeutic goals and minimize harms.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Available evidence to help guide efficacious nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug and opioid analgesic prescribing will be reviewed.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The available evidence can guide but cannot provide any prescriber with absolute knowledge regarding outcome for these frequently prescribed and potentially dangerous agents. Knowledge of the available evidence and application of such to our patients on an individualized basis hopefully will help to optimize therapeutic goals and minimize harms.
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Pain Center, Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Argoff
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology; D054539:Medication Therapy Management; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D055553:Prescription Drugs; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D055553:Prescription Drugs
keywords: Analgesics; NSAIDs; Opioids