Responsible Opioid Prescribing: A Physician's Guide

Responsible Opioid Prescribing: A Physician's Guide Waterford Life Sciences, Washington, DC, USA, 2007 Scott Fishman (ed. ) Pages: 137 Price: 12. 95 Commissioned by the Federation and State Medical Boards, this book is written by Scott Fishman with an expert advisory board including Aaron Gisbon, co-director for U. S. Policy Research, Pain James Thompson, president/CEO, Federation of State Medical Boards; and David Thornton, immediate past executive director of the Medical Board of California and many other excellent contributors. In 1997, the Federation of State Medical Boards introduced the first Model Guidelines for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain. These guidelines were subsequently updated to a Model Policy in 2004, and have been adopted verbatim by 28 states with 10 states using similar language. The purpose of Responsible Opioid Prescribing is to extract the information presented in the Model Policy such that busy practitioners can understand the information and apply it to clinical situations seen in a daily practice. Scott Fishman has admirably accomplished this task. The book …