Erin Krebs, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, shares some of the challenges she and her colleagues face when treating patients who take opioids in high doses for chronic pain. Find out more about her PCORI-funded project, Comparing Ways to Help Veterans Manage Pain and Reduce Use of Prescription Opioid Medicines.
Krebs was a speaker at a September 2017 Capitol Hill briefing, which Anthem and PCORI cohosted, that focused on the need for evidence-based strategies to address America’s opioid epidemic. Click here to find out more about the briefing. Learn more about PCORI-funded projects on pain care and opioids.