Creating a Palliative Care Clinic for Patients with Cancer Pain and Substance Use Disorder
In an article published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, the authors discuss results from their palliative care clinic, designed to address the complex needs of people living with cancer pain and concurrent substance use disorder (SUD)—with a focus on opioid use disorder (OUD). The clinic, grounded in harm reduction principles and formal collaboration with addiction psychiatry, successfully increased patient volume, retention rates, and the use of buprenorphine for treatment.