Understanding pain and medicines for pain
About pain, challenges of long term pain management, assessment of long term pain, the role of medications in pain management, a stepped approach to pain prescribing, patient context
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Other sections
Best professional practice
Guidance on best professional practice in safe prescribing, record keeping, patient safety and risk, reporting adverse effects
Clinical Use of Opioids
Opioids Aware: Clinical Use of Opioids
A structured approach to opioid prescribing
Opioids Aware: A structured approach to opioids prescribing
Opioids and addiction
Opioids Aware: opioids and addiction
Information for patients
Opioids Aware: Information for patients
Opioids Aware sitemap
Sitemap for the Opioids Aware resource, providing links to all sections