This drug is considered the “Gold Standard” of opioids.

They include back pain that doesn't improve after a month, back pain that doesn't improve with lying down, and patients who also present with unexplained weight loss.

This HBO classic depicted the narcotics trade in Baltimore from a different perspective in each season.

Palliative care focuses on improving the patient’s _______ of life rather than ______ of life.

Unrelieved acute post-traumatic and postoperative pain are risk factors for developing this type of pain.

The WHO analgesic ladder bases drug choice on this aspect of pain.

Prolonged bed rest, passive treatments and gabapentin have all been shown to be this for LBP.

The Velvet Underground sang about this diacetyl derivative of morphine on their debut album.

This clinician is considered the mother of the modern hospice movement.

This opioid is no longer recommended for postoperative pain in children due to fatalities in "ultra-rapid" metabolizers.

Neuropathic pain typically does not respond well to this class of drugs.

85% of patients have this diagnosis for their first complaint of back pain

This injectable NSAID is thought to be responsible for several cases of renal failure in NFL athletes.

Under Medicare law, all hospices are required to provide bereavement services for at least this amount of time to all families/friends of patients who have died under hospice care.

This approach to perioperative analgesia employs a variety of agents in small doses to block pain perception at different sites.

It is important to administer these drugs with food. They may cause gastrointestinal irritation or bleeding.

LBP is considered to be chronic after this time period

This famous fictional British detective from the turn of the 20th Century indulged in both cocaine and morphine.

For a patient to be eligible to receive and remain on hospice care, the referring/certifying physician must state in their best medical judgment that “with the usual course of their illness" the patient is likely to die within this time period.

If possible, this class of analgesics should be avoided postoperatively in the elderly due to concerns about bleeding and damage to the kidney.

Due to reduced renal function and susceptibility to CNS adverse effects, “start low/go slow” is the best approach when treating this group of patients.

These include problems with the healthcare system, with the patient, or with the clinician.

This country singer correctly interpreted the WHO ladder, when singing "Cocaine cannot kill my pain".

At the minimum, these 6 professionals must be included in a hospice interdisciplinary team

Sepsis is an absolute contraindication to the use of this route of administration of analgesia.