RT Journal
A1 Grabois M, Webster LR
T1 COntinuing education in opioid prescribing
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD November 28
VO 308
IS 20
SP 2082
OP 2083
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.13750
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.13750
AB 
We acknowledge a potential bias when industry funds CME, but this is the current system of prescriber education in the United States. Unfortunately, government and industry are currently the only 2 viable funding sources that exist, and despite the need of 100 million patients in the United States in chronic pain,2 there remain serious gaps in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in pain and addiction medicine and a paucity of non–industry-funded mid-career education.