Attitudinal Barriers to Analgesic Use among Patients with Substance Use Disorders

Table 1

Modified Barriers Questionnaire.

Subscale	Item
Side effects	Drowsiness from pain medicine is difficult to control.
	When you use pain medicine, your body becomes used to its effects and pretty soon it will not work anymore.
	Using pain medicine blocks your ability to know if you have any new pain.
	Pain medicine can keep you from knowing what is going on in your body.
Addiction	There is a danger of becoming addicted to pain medicine.
	Pain medicine is very addictive.
Reporting pain to physicians	It is important to be strong by not talking about pain.
	It is important for the doctor to focus on curing illness, and not waste time controlling pain.
	Doctors might find it annoying to be told about pain.