Prescribing opioid analgesics in general practice

The French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) publishes the first results of the Study on the use of analgesic opioid medicines (entitled EMOA). 

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This publication questions the practices of general practitioners (GPs) administering initial prescriptions of analgesic opioid medicines in a context of increasing prescriptions of analgesic opioid medicines in the treatment of chronic pain unrelated to cancer over the past ten years, and in connection with the implementation of a pain control policy in France. 

How do they prescribe opioid analgesics? How do they deal with situations deemed "problematic"? The sociological analysis presented is based on the testimony of 23 general practitioners practising in different organisational contexts.

Publication type
Tendances
No.
156
Publication date
Language
French
English
Author(s)
DUPRAT
Laura
Edited by
OFDT
Number of pages
8
Products & addictions
Heroin and opioids
Themes
Treatment
Specific population(s)
Adults
Territories
France
Dispositif d'enquête et d'observation
Sociological and qualitative surveys

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