Opioids prescriptions in pain therapy and risk of addiction: a one-year survey in Italy. Analysis of national opioids database. - Concepedia

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Opioids prescriptions in pain therapy and risk of addiction: a one-year survey in Italy. Analysis of national opioids database.

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2019

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Luca Miceli, Rym Bednarova, Alessandro Rizzardo, Arturo Cuomo, Ilaria Riccardi, Luigi Vetrugno, Tiziana Bove, Marco Cascella

Abstract

The opioids "plague" that is striking the USA is not registered in Italy during the observation period. The reasons might be due to the innovative and effective law 38/2010 and a health care system able to guarantee appropriate prescriptions for major analgesics.