U.S. drug overdose deaths continue to rise – Increase fueled by synthetic opioids
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29 March 2018 (CDC) – An in-depth analysis of 2016 U.S. drug overdose data shows that America’s overdose epidemic is spreading…
Is the crackdown on opioids failing patients?
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Jan Curtis and her dog, Belle, at a park near her Huntington Beach home on April 27, 2018. Curtis hopes she's nearing the end…
Walmart Will Implement New Opioid Prescription Limits By End Of Summer
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A pharmacist speaks with a customer at Walmart Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, Ark., in 2014. On Monday Walmart introduced…
Walmart Will Implement New Opioid Prescription Limits By End Of Summer
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The giant pharmacy chain introduced new rules restricting painkiller prescriptions to 7 days and putting a cap on dosage…
The Nation’s Latest Healthcare Crisis: Breaking Down The Opioid Epidemic
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Lawline has compiled the answers to many of your most pressing questions.
For Chronic Pain, A Change In Habits Can Beat Opioids For Relief
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There's a growing consensus among pain specialists that lifestyle changes can be more effective than drugs in managing chronic…
Crisis within a crisis
PainScience,
Jacob Sullum for Reason.com, on how the opioid crisis is not only killing addicts but also “leaving pain patients in agony”: …
Is the Opioid Problem Worse Than You Think?
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Suffering of…
Finally, proof: opioids are no better than other medications for some chronic pain
Oregon Health & Sciences University,
A new study finds patients who take opioids did no better than those taking opioid alternatives; Roger Chou, M.D., says, “The…
Our Travis Rieder argues that, yes, America probably needs a culture change regarding pain medicine, but we have to be careful how we frame that challenge.
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Is it wrong to ask your doctor for opioids? When should you ask your doctor for opioids? Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com…
1000s Of Jobs In Ohio Are Left Unfilled Because People Can’t “Pass A Drug Test”
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Authored by Tim Pearce via The Daily Caller, The manufacturing industry in Ohio is expanding under the Trump administration…
We Talked to Five Public-Health Experts About the CDC's New Anti-Opioid Campaign. They Don't Think It's Going to Work.
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Getting people to eschew risky painkiller prescriptions isn't as easy as persuading them to buy body wash, researchers warn.Last…
Pharmacy Benefit Management Of Opioid Prescribing: The Role Of Employers And Insurers
Health Affairs Blog,
In the last two decades, prescribing rates for opioids have increased nearly three-fold, from 76 million prescriptions in 1991…
Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
Freakonomics,
How can it be that medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S.? And what’s to be done? (Photo: jasleen_kaur/fli…
JAMA Forum: Community-Based Prevention and Strategies for the Opioid Crisis
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Solving the unrelenting opioid crisis has become a pressing national priority. As evidence, the President’s Commission on…
Doctors trained at top medical schools prescribe fewer opioids
Journalist's Resource,
If all general practitioners prescribed liked those from the best medical schools, 56.5 percent fewer opioid prescriptions…
A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain
Oregon Health & Sciences University,
In a Vox article on “ … the new science of treating low back pain,” Dr. Roger Chou says: “Our best understanding of low back…
America's Doctors Are Prescribing Fewer Opioids, but Still Three Times as Many as 18 Years Ago
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Progress against overprescribing is real, but spotty.Doctors nationwide have been prescribing fewer opioids—painkillers such as…
Indiana Prescribing Guidelines–Eff. July 1, 2017.
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Indiana Prescribing Guidelines–Eff. July 1, 2017. (June 29, 2017): Deaths resulting from a drug overdose have grown…
NYT says overdose fatalities soared in 2016. Trump's proposed budget cuts are no help for that
Daily Kos,
The New York Times has published another of those scary stories about the epidemic in drug overdoses in the United States. Last…
Even small opioid dosages can lead to misuse
Oregon Health & Sciences University,
Even small opioid dosages can lead to misuse/addiction.
The difficult choices: Managing chronic pain while avoiding opioid abuse
Vital Record,
Rather than being considered a miracle pill that magically takes away pain, prescription opioids are increasingly being seen as…
US heroin use has increased almost fivefold in a decade, study shows
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Researchers say increase is seen across all social groups, ages and sexes and highlight link between misuse of prescription…
Opioid Consumption Drastically Increases Despite The Looming Dangers
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Opioid users are still taking the risk despite the dangers brought about by the drugs.
POLL: More People Are Taking Opioids, Even As Their Concerns Rise
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The number of people who have used opioid painkillers is still rising, according to a new NPR-Truven Health Analytics poll. But…
POLL: More People Are Taking Opioids, Even As Their Concerns Rise
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The number of people who have used opioid painkillers is still rising, according to a new NPR-Truven Health Analytics poll. But…
Prescribing an end to Oregon’s opioid epidemic
Oregon Health & Sciences University,
Over 100 attendees participated in the second Public Health Portland Style event, where the discussion was centered on opioid…
We need to speed up our acceptance of the opioid guidelines
KevinMD.com,
A couple of years ago, I inherited a patient who was on both a patch for the powerful painkiller fentanyl and a high dose of…
CDC Recommends Behavioral Treatment for Chronic Pain
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently launched a call for the use of behavioral treatments for managing chronic pain…
Narrating Medicine: When You 'Inherit' A Pain Patient On Opioids, You Need Guidelines
CommonHealth,
"I have not met a single primary care provider who has decided to start opioids for a patient. Rather, we are dealing with the 'i…
Cops aren’t the only ones handing out naloxone now
Scienceline,
Even more pharmacies in Ohio are allowing the public to get anti-overdose drugs without a prescription
5 ways the health system can curb the opioid epidemic
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The post 5 ways the health system can curb the opioid epidemic appeared first on Healthy Debate.
The opioid crisis: Medicine X panelists explore the complexity of managing chronic pain
Scope Blog,
Saturday’s Medicine X session on the opioid crisis focused on how best to manage the chronic pain felt by millions of Americans…
6 Facts Every PT (and their patients) Should Know About Opioids…
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As many of you are aware, the APTA launched its #ChoosePT campaign a few months ago to help combat the opioid epidemic we are…
Pain Care As A Catalyst For Primary Care Transformation
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As part of our mission to improve New Jersey’s health care delivery systems and reduce the costs of care for its underserved…
The dark side of opioids: How these addictive drugs have led to abuse and death
Vital Record,
By now, you’ve probably heard about the opioid crisis in America: Opioid abuse is a major problem that kills an American every…
JAMA Forum: The Pain and Opioid Epidemics: Policy and Vital Signs
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Near the end of my tenure as editor-in-chief of AJN, the American Journal of Nursing in 2009, I asked one of the coordinators…
Finding the right balance in pain relief: A physician’s story
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After surgery for my broken tibia, I realized that there were only four points on the pain scale that really mattered to me: I’m…
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
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By Vishal Shah…
The widespread use of fentanyl escalates the risk of overdose
KevinMD.com,
A fentanyl overdose led to the recent death of musician and singer Prince, according to the medical examiner’s report released…
Addressing racial bias in the treatment of pain
KevinMD.com,
The opioid (painkiller) epidemic, with its seemingly indiscriminate reach, has embraced an alarming number of Americans. In the…
What Is Chronic Pain And Why Is It So Hard To Treat?
Medical Daily,
Unrelieved pain contributes more to human suffering than any other disease.
At 'Pain School,' Veterans Learn To Manage With Fewer Pills
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Bedford's is one of 67 VA Pain Schools across the country. Through the schools, the VA is trying to shift the way patients…
At ‘Pain School,’ Veterans Learn To Manage With Fewer Pills
CommonHealth,
Robert, a veteran who injured his back several times during a dozen years in the Navy, stopped using opioids to treat his pain…
Not Everyone is Happy With the CDC’s Recently Updated Opioid Guidelines
Natural Society,
Earlier this year the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) responded to the growing opioid addiction epidemic in the U.S. by…
12 Opioid Prescribing Recommendations: 2016 Guidelines from the CDC
Physician's Weekly,
The CDC issued new 2016 guidelines this week for prescribing opioid medications for chronic pain for patients 18 and older. Here…
Opioid-Related Overdoses And Deaths Are On The Rise In The ICU: Study
Medical Daily,
The rate of opioid hospitalizations and overdose deaths has only gotten worse in the past few years, new research finds.
Republicans’ Cynical Move To Blame Obamacare For The Country’s Drug Addiction Epidemic
ThinkProgress,
It's a misleading argument from some of the law's fiercest opponents. The post Republicans’ Cynical Move To Blame Obamacare For…
Is the government’s National Pain Strategy doomed to fail?
KevinMD.com,
Over the past few months, the federal government has mobilized against what is being called “the opioid crisis“: a national…
How the medical profession can solve the opioid crisis
KevinMD.com,
Opioids, also known as opiates, serve as important prescription medications in medical practice. But within the last decade or…
The opioid epidemic: It’s time to place blame where it belongs
KevinMD.com,
The media is full of stories about the current opioid crisis. But unlike many national crises, such as the Flint lead-contaminate…
Addressing the social determinants of pain
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Over the past few months, the federal government has mobilized against what is being called "the opioid crisis": a national…
CDC Chronic Pain Guidelines: Not so bad, but...
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by Tom QuinnIn case you didn’t notice, the US Centers for Disease Control published their long-awaited (dreaded?) “CDC…
Curbing opioid abuse
Vital Record,
Most people know that heroin is a dangerous drug, but its cousins, the legal, pharmaceutical opioids, such as codeine or…
How to Use Prescription Painkillers Without Getting Addicted
Lifehacker,
From the headlines, prescription painkillers sound pretty scary. Some of the people who take them switch to heroin, and some…
'Zero pain is not the goal' of medical treatment, doctors say
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As doctors contemplate a future without opiates to treat chronic pain, some are making the case that eliminating their patients…