RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Health has developed an online calculator to show how much the opioid epidemic has impacted Virginians in lost labor, healthcare, crime and other ...

Evaluation of the Japanese opioid conversion ratio for switching to methadone for cancer pain control. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology ...

Dr. Mellar Davis discusses the joint guideline from MASCC, ASCO, AAHPM, HPNA, and NICSO on opioid conversion in adults with cancer. He reviews the limited evidence, and the formal consensus process ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center on Society and Health collaborated on the development of an opioid cost calculator.

A patient who has been taking an opioid for an extended period of time may develop a degree of tolerance to it; however, when converting to another opioid, only a part of this tolerance may carry over ...

In a letter to the FDA, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has addressed public health concerns associated with the use of equianalgesic opioid conversion tables and has recommended a staged ...