Simple Opioid Risk Tool

A talk by Dr. Pam Squire recommended a simple opioid risk tool called the ORT

PAIN MEDICINE Volume 6, Number 6, 2005, 432–442
Predicting Aberrant Behaviors in Opioid-Treated Patients:Preliminary Validation of the Opioid Risk Tool
Lynn R. Webster, MD, and Rebecca M. Webster

Factors included:

1) Age – 16-45 are higher risk

2) Family history of drug, prescription drug, or alcohol abuse

3) Personal history of same

4) Psychopathology – ADHD, OCD, Bipolar, Scizophrenia

5) Depression

6) History of pre-adolescent sexual abuse (scored only in women).

a form here

They also had a list of drug behaviors

form here

Comment – . a PDF version of the ORT can be gotten from:

http://www.emergingsolutionsinpain.com