Long-Term Opioid Data

Expert Meetings

Overview

Opioids are prescribed for pain management, but these drugs are often misused and/or abused, which can lead to addiction, adverse events, or deaths from accidental or intentional overdoses. Extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) opioids, which contain large amounts of drug in a single dose, have an especially high potential for misuse and abuse.

In this collaborative project, CTTI’s primary focus was to facilitate a broad scientific discussion about potential ways and best practices to generate evidence to inform the safe use of ER and LA opioid analgesics for the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. An expert meeting [link] was held to review the existing scientific evidence and discuss next steps to generate higher quality data on the safety and efficacy of long-term opioid use.

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