The Toxicologist as Educator: Addressing Pain Management in the Midst of an Opioid Epidemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine and the Oregon Poison Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Campus Services Building 559, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239, USA, beauchamp.gillian@gmail.com.

Editorial

Gillian A Beauchamp. J Med Toxicol. 2015 Sep.

. 2015 Sep;11(3):279-80.

doi: 10.1007/s13181-015-0491-y.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine and the Oregon Poison Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Campus Services Building 559, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239, USA, beauchamp.gillian@gmail.com.

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