AUTHOR=You Dokyoung S. , Mardian Aram S. , Darnall Beth D. , Chen Chwen-Yuen A. , De Bruyne Korina , Flood Pamela D. , Kao Ming-Chih , Karnik Anita D. , McNeely Jennifer , Porter Joel G. , Schwartz Robert P. , Stieg Richard L. , Mackey Sean C. TITLE=A Brief Screening Tool for Opioid Use Disorder: EMPOWER Study Expert Consensus Protocol JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine VOLUME=8 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.591201 DOI=10.3389/fmed.2021.591201 ISSN=2296-858X ABSTRACT=
Growing concerns about the safety of long-term opioid therapy and its uncertain efficacy for non-cancer pain have led to relatively rapid opioid deprescribing in chronic pain patients who have been taking opioid for years. To date, empirically supported processes for safe and effective opioid tapering are lacking. Opioid tapering programs have shown high rates of dropouts and increases in patient distress and suicidal ideation. Therefore, safe strategies for opioid deprescribing that are more likely to succeed are urgently needed. In response to this demand, the EMPOWER study has been launched to examine the effectiveness of behavioral medicine strategies within the context of patient-centered opioid tapering in outpatient settings (