AAPM member Antje Barreveld, M.D., has co-authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine together with Phillip Coffin, M.D., surrounding the topic of prescription opioid medications for inherited patients in a primary care setting.
See the abstract below and access the full article on the official New England Journal of Medicine website.
Article Abstract
Patients who have taken opioids for years for chronic pain must be treated differently from those who have not because such therapies cause profound physiological and neurologic changes. Reflexive approaches to tapering or discontinuing opioids should be avoided.
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More About Dr. Barreveld
Dr. Antje Barreveld is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is Medical Director of the Pain Management Services and co-Founder and Director of Education and Outreach for the Substance Use Services (SUS). She is an Anesthesiologist with Commonwealth Anesthesia Associates at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
Dr. Barreveld’s clinical interests are in managing chronic pelvic pain in men and women, acute and chronic postoperative pain, interdisciplinary spine care, safe practices in co-managing pain and addiction, and complex interventional procedures from diagnostic nerve blocks to spinal cord stimulation including dorsal root ganglion stimulation.