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Date: Jun 13 2011

Preventing Avoidable Opioid-Related Deaths Top Priority for Pain Medicine Field

- From the special supplement of Pain Medicine, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM).

"Preventing unnecessary deaths from opioid therapy should be a central focus for everyone working in the field of pain medicine,” said Lynn R. Webster, MD, FACPM, FASAM, Medical Director and Founder of Lifetree Clinical Research and Pain Clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, and officer for the AAPM. "Our primary objective is to increase understanding of the major risk factors associated with opioid-related deaths and exploring methods that mitigate the adverse effects involved in treating patients with analgesics that are potentially lethal."

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