Volume 36 · Number 6
JUNE 2006
Celebration of Spring
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This month’s issue of Psychiatric Annals, guest edited by Norman Miller, MD, JD, is focused on prescription opiates medications. We learn that there has been a recent massive increase in the nonmedical use of opiate medications in recent years. Why is this? Is it increased distribution or are more people treating their “psychic” pain with exogenous opiates?
Prescription Opiate Medications
Norman S. Miller, MD, JD
A 55-year-old Man With Long-term Refractory Depression
Jan Fawcett, MD
Prescription Opiate Medications: Clinical Assessment and Treatment of Addiction, Tolerance, and Dependence
Norman S. Miller, MD, JD
Opioid Tolerance, Dependence, and Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia
Jianren Mao, MD, PhD
Medical and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids: Epidemiology and Prevalence
Drake Morgan, PhD;
Kimberly Frost-Pineda, MPH;
Mark S. Gold, MD
Combating Abuse and Diversion of Prescription Opiate Medications
Gregory B. Collins, MD;
Mark S. McAllister, MD
Physicians and the Controlled Substance Laws for Opiate Prescription Medications
Norman S. Miller, MD, JD
Informed Consent: Do You Know It When You See It?
Michael Lamport Commons, PhD;
Joseph Anthony Rodriguez, EdD;
Kathryn Marie Adams, BS;
Eric Andrew Goodheart, PhD;
Thomas Gordon Gutheil, MD;
Ellen Davis Cyr, MS
