Opioid Campaigns’ Impact on Advanced Cancer and Hospice and Palliative Care.

Rehabilitation Oncology - Rehabilitation Oncology Journal Podcast

Recent national opioid campaigns are important steps to reducing opioid abuse but they may have significant, unintentional, and adverse consequences on the medical management of patients with advanced cancers or those receiving hospice and palliative care. This commentary describes the role of the physical therapist in the palliative symptom management of terminally ill individuals during this paradigm shift in opioid prescribing practices.