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#366 Opioid Use Disorder and Acute Pain in the Hospitalized Patient

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How Do You Know if You Have an Opioid Use Disorder?

Hospital is just really uncomfortable unpleasant places to be. There is a ton of things that can go into how we experience pain and hospitals are just really stressful for a lot of folks being in the hospital. I like to check in on this and see if they have, you know, an underlying general anxiety disorder that maybe it weren't treatment or trying something as simple as just adding hydroxylsine just to help as well can can go a long way. It's not going to fix anything by any means, but it can be really helpful. If someone is using fentanyl, particularly if they're using IV fentanyl, they're probably going to have a very high tolerance for opioids.

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