Legal Aspects of Pain Management for Patients with Chronic Pain Syndrome

In this article, an interdisciplinary group of authors examines the legal and clinical aspects of pain management in cancer patients belonging to clinical groups II–III. Special attention is given to the use of effective chronic pain syndrome therapy with opioid analgesics, as opposed to prescribing nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. At the same time, the regulatory barriers to prescribing effective pain therapy are explored, which stem from the lack of clinical guidelines for treating chronic pain syndrome in patients of clinical groups II–III.