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  1. THE JOURNAL OF PAIN (will open in a new window)
    2. The mission of The Journal of Pain is to improve the care of patients in pain by providing a forum for clinical researchers, basic scientists, clinicians, and other health professionals to publish original research. The Journal publishes original articles related to all aspects of pain, including clinical and basic research, patient care, education, and health policy. The Journal also publishes reports of original clinical research or reports of original basic research, invited critical reviews, including meta analyses of drugs for pain management, invited commentaries on reviews and exceptional case studies.
    1. Current Issue RSS Feed (will open in a new window)
    2. Articles In Press RSS Feed (will open in a new window)

  2. PODCASTS
    3. Podcasts will open in a new program (Like iTunes or Windows Media Player). The downloads are all .mP3 files
    1. Opioid Medications- This podcast covers the common opioid medications of morphine, codeine, hydrocodone and oxycontin among others. Specific attention is given to the pharmacodynamics related to the receptors that these drug bind to, side effects and classifications of these drugs. RUN TIME 22:29 DOWNLOAD 21MB
    2. Selecting a safe Opioid- Dr Charles Argoff discusses the metabolic and safety profiles of opioid therapy and offers advice on how to choose wisely. RUN TIME 5:48 DOWNLOAD 3MB
    3. Appropriate use of Opioid Therapy for Patients with Pain- A discussion on effective pain management for patients with acute and moderate to severe chronic pain who have not responded adequately to other therapies. PART 1 RUN TIME 11:45 DOWNLOAD 11MB
      PART 2 RUN TIME 10:41 DOWNLOAD 10MB
      PART 3 RUN TIME 16:28 DOWNLOAD 15MB
      PART 4 RUN TIME 14:55 DOWNLOAD 14MB
    4. A Case-Based Approach to the Safe and Effective Use of Therapy in Primary Care- This CME/CE-certified podcast is based on a roundtable discussion held on January 19, 2010. This educational initiative is co-sponsored by Curatio CME Institute, Penn State College of Medicine, the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, and EduPro Resources. This activity has been created in collaboration with the American Pain Foundation and Friends Research Institute and in consultation with the National Institute on Drug Abuse. RUN TIME 1:30:28 DOWNLOAD 41MB
    5. Long Term Opioid Management for Non-cancer Pain. RUN TIME 4:11 DOWNLOAD 4MB
    6. Critical Issues in Managing Pain with Opioid Therapy- The implementation of a pain management plan that provides considerations for the abuse-deterrent formulations of opioid therapy is discussed. Part 1 RUN TIME 8:42 DOWNLOAD 8MB
      PART 2 RUN TIME 10:04 DOWNLOAD 9MB
      PART 3 RUN TIME 14:51 DOWNLOAD 14MB
      PART 4 RUN TIME 19:48 DOWNLOAD 18MB
    7. Opioids- Managing opioid misuse with treatment agreements and urine drug testing: Interview with Barbara Turner, MD, MSED, of the University of Pennsylvania; plus a summary of the articles in the issue. Annals of Internal Medicine. RUN TIME 34:20 DOWNLOAD 16MB
    8. Interview: Opioid Dependence - Management in General Practice - Dr. Frei talks to Dr. Deepa Daniel about the management of opioid dependence using opioid pharmacotherapy as part of a comprehensive chronic illness management strategy. RUN TIME 20:22 DOWNLOAD 5MB
    9. Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Accidental Overdoses- Two authors of a JAMA study discuss how prescribing patterns for opioids figured in the rates of unintentional overdose. The work was done using data from VA records. Briefly, they found that the risk for overdose was directly related to the maximum dose prescribed, however, patients who received only as needed prescriptions as opposed to regular daily amounts were at high risk for overdose. These findings have some lessons for all clinicians. RUN TIME 10:16 DOWNLOAD 7MB
    10. More Podcasts related to Improving Provider Skills in Reducing the Risk of Opioid Therapy can be found on OpioidRisk.com. This site was developed by Clinical Tools, Inc (CTI) with funding from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

  3. APPS
    4. App Links will open in a new window in the iTunes section of the Apple Web Site
    1. eOpioid - Opioids and Opiates Calculator - $4.99 Rated 4+ and requires iOS 2.2.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. eOpioid is a powerful opioid dose converter app for the iPhone and iPod touch which includes a suite of useful functions that can perform complicated opioid pain medication dose conversions. This app can assist healthcare professionals determine proper dose calculations of different opioid pain medicines for patients who may already be using opioids or are opioid tolerant.
    2. Opioid Dosage Conversion - Free Rated 4+ and requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus. This app is an opioid analgesic dosage conversion calculator for use by trained medical professionals. The application supports conversion to and from opioids commonly prescribed and used in U.S. hospitals orally, parenterally, or transdermally, including morphine, codeine, hydromorphone, hydrocodone, fentanyl, methadone, oxycodone and oxymorphone. The application is intended to help and instruct in the process of conversion of opioid regimens.
    3. Pain Guide: Pain Management Quick Reference - Free Rated 4+ and requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Pain Guide is a free medical resource intended for medical students and residents. Pain Guide gives you quick and easy access to pain management information, pain syndromes, medications, and more. Great effort was made to correct errors and ensure up-to-date content.
    4. eBenzo - $4.99 Rated 4+ and requires iOS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Managing a patient's benzodiazepine medication regimen has become an increasingly difficult task as their popularity in use continues to increase. They are commonly used to treat a wide range of disorders including anxiety, social phobias, insomnia, muscle spasms, and myofascial pain. They also have anticonvulsant and sedating or hypnotic properties among others. eBenzo is a powerful and flexible oral benzodiazepine dose converter which includes a suite of useful functions that can perform complicated benzodiazepine medication dose conversions.
    5. ESP Mobile - Emerging Solutions in Pain - Free Rated 4+ and requires iOS 4.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Emerging Solutions in Pain is pleased to announce the launch of ESP Mobile, a brand new opportunity to stay current with the latest information and educational programs in pain management. Included is a valuable collection of timely news in pain management and clinical support resources for health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, students, and more.
    6. Pain by Doctot - $5.99 Rated 4+ and requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Doctot Pain is a suite of the most widely used clinician-administered assessment scales and look-up tables relevant to Pain patients. Thanks to its artificial intelligence, Doctot Pain can remove human error in relation to scale-related calculations, as well as minimizing HCP scale-related mistakes in general. This App, undoubtedly provides a medical practitioner with a very convenient and flexible tool for measuring important functions of pain suffering.
    7. My Pain Diary: Chronic Pain & Symptom Tracker - $4.99 Rated 4+ and requires iOS 7.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Track your chronic pain, symptoms, triggers and more to create detailed reports your doctor will love. Created by a chronic pain patient to track, manage, and report on pain and symptoms. My Pain Diary can be customized to suit your tracking needs regardless of your condition. The flexible nature of the app makes it perfect for tracking anything from headaches and migraines to Fibromyalgia and CRPS.
    8. PainMC - $1.99 Rated 4+ and requires iOS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Pain MC (Pain Medication Calculator) is a utility designed to help the healthcare professional convert the dose of a selected opioid medication to the approximate equivalent dose of other opioid medications. The calculator serves as a guide, using conversion values that are widely accepted for opioid medication equianalgesic dosing. This product provides an 'incomplete cross-tolerance reduction' setting, which can be modified to help offset the possibility of opioid toxicity, when a patient's opioid medication regimen is changed. History is available to review previous conversions. Quick access to dosing information for opioid, non-opioid, and adjuvant analgesics is also included, allowing the healthcare professional to more easily recall dosing information for these medications, and individualize pain management regimens for their patients.
    9. D.I.R.E Score - Free Rated 4+ and requires iOS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The DIRE Score: Predicting Outcomes of Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain. The DIRE Score is a clinician rating used to predict patient suitability for long-term opioid analgesic treatment for chronic non-cancer pain. It consists of four factors that are rated separately and then added up to form the DIRE score: Diagnosis, Intractability, Risk and Efficacy. The Risk factor is further broken down into four subcategories that are individually rated and added together to arrive at the Risk score. The Risk subcategories are Psychological Health, Chemical Health, Reliability, and Social Support. Each factor is rated on a numerical scale from 1 to 3, with 1 corresponding to the least compelling or least favorable case for opioid prescribing, and 3 denoting the most compelling or favorable case for opioid prescribing. The total score is used to determine whether or not a patient is a suitable candidate for opioid maintenance analgesia. Scores may range from 7 at the lowest (patient receives all 1s) to 21 at the highest (patient receives all 3s).
    10. Safe Opioids - Free Rated 4+ and requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Opioid analgesics are prescribed frequently for the treatment of pain. While these medications can be an essential part of effective medical care, there are also increasing reports of adverse effects, addiction, and deaths associated with opioid therapies. This app brings together information currently available to clinicians, but which can be difficult to locate in a search or require a clinician to do multiple searches to find information that could be helpful in safe and effective use of these medications.
    11. Opioid Dose Conversion Calculator - Free Rated 3+ and requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. The Dosing Calculator offers physicians a convenient tool to accurately calculate the equianalgesic dose of an opioid from the patient's current opioid(s). Since some patients are on a regimen of more than 1 opioid, the dosing calculator allows you to enter up to 2 opioids. The conversion ratios are based on available guidelines and prescribing information. This application has been certified by an independent third party.