Patient education in cancer pain management with opioids

: It is important for pharmacists to remove patients' anxiety and misunderstanding about cancer pain management with opioids. Furthermore, we need to explain how to take opioids as well as its effects and side-effects and make sure they are correctly understood so that patients and their family members adequately use the medicine. Here describes the patient education which aims to remove patients' anxiety and misunderstanding about opioids and urge patients to be proactively involved in cancer pain management.