In recent years there is a growing tendency to prescribe opioid analgesics. Opioids are not the first-line treatment of chronic non-cancer pain, but it is becoming more frequent to see their prescription and, at the same time, they increase issues associated with them, such as side effects, risk of abuse / misuse and addiction, and deaths due to about dose. Because of this, it is fundamental to a patient with pain to perform a complete clinical history that allows us to assess the risk of future addiction that patient will have. As this evaluation is not always possible to perform correctly, and risk assessment tools are not diagnostic tools, we present a rapid, simple opioid addiction risk calculator, useful both for health professionals and for patients and based on evidence.
