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Frequently Asked Questions about Opioid Pain Medicine: Palliative Care (Fraser Health) [English] Permalink Public

This handout covers frequently asked questions about opioid pain medicine including how to get the best pain relief and how to use breakthrough medicine. (English) Colour

How to Take Long-Acting Opioid Pain Medicine: Palliative Care (Fraser Health) [English] Permalink Public

This handout has information on how to take opioid pain medicine. Opioids are one type of medicine used to treat pain, or to help when feeling short of breath. Opioids are available in short and long-acting forms. People taking long-acting pain medicine may need short acting pain medicine if they still have pain. (English) Colour

How to Take Short-Acting Opioid Pain Medicine: Palliative Care (Fraser Health) [English] Permalink Public

This handout has information on how to take opioid pain medicine for palliative patients. Opioids are one type of medicine used to treat pain, or to help when feeling short of breath. pioids are available in short and long-acting forms. (English) Colour

Preventing and Treating Pain in Care Homes (Fraser Health) [English] Permalink Public

Information about pain in older adults when living in a care home. Includes information about pain, how pain is expressed especially when a person also has dementia, what happens to a person if pain is not treated, and different ways to treat pain. We include ways that family and friends can help. (English) Colour

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Before AND After Procedural Sedation (Adult) (Fraser Health) [English] Permalink Public

We give this information out after various procedures and sometimes as part of a package for a specific procedure. Procedural sedation means we gave you medicines so we could do a test or procedure without you feeling pain. This is called ‘sedation’. The medicines will make you feel sleepy, dizzy, faint, clumsy, or unsteady. It can also cause you to not think clearly. (English) Colour

This factsheet is part of Colon Screening Program Package (268083).

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Using Methadone for Pain in Palliative Care (Fraser Health) [English] Permalink Public

Methadone is an opioid (sometimes called narcotic) like morphine and codeine. Methadone is used to help treat complex pain often related to nerve pain. It should only be used when pain control is needed all the time. (English) Colour

Chronic Pain Clinic (Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre) [English] Permalink Public

Our approach to managing chronic pain is to teach you how to care for yourself (called self-management). We offer education in individual or group settings. Classes focus on ways to improve your daily life and manage your pain. (English) Colour

Chronic Pain and Sex (Fraser Health) [English] Permalink Public

This handout provides you with some ideas that may help, when planning and when having sex. NOTE: Chronic Pain and Sex is intended for printer setting 'booklet format' to print 17 X 11. (English) Colour

Substance Use: Signs of an Opioid Overdose (Large) [Punjabi] Permalink Public

Poster illustrating the signs of an opioid overdose and what to do. (Punjabi) Colour

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