Can We Predict Addiction to Opioid Analgesics?A Possible Tool to Estimate the Risk of OpioidAddiction in Patients with Pain

Abstract

We found differences in questionnaire responses between patients with an opioid addiction and patients suffering from chronic pain to be dependent upon the prevalence of current or former addiction, psychiatric history, attitudes towards medication, and ideas about the origin of pain. We believe these factors have predictive value in estimating a patient with pain's risk of addiction.