D.C. Week: Revision in CDC Opioid Guidelines Demanded
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WASHINGTON -- Pain patients tell Congress the CDC's opioid guidelines are hindering access to vital medications, and an FDA…
Pain Patients to Congress: CDC's Opioid Guideline Is Hurting Us
MedPage Today,
WASHINGTON -- Patients with chronic pain are suffering from ham-handed efforts to curb opioid overdoses, a series of witnesses…
How Can Our Health Care System Help Stop the Opioid Crisis?
Care2,
The opioid crisis has spiraled out of control. Last year alone, nearly 50,000 Americans died from an overdose of either…
California Doctors Alarmed As State Links Their Opioid Prescriptions to Deaths
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California Doctors Alarmed As State Links Their Opioid Prescriptions to Deaths
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Opioid prescription cuts push patients to brink, says Pierce County woman. And she’s not even halfway off her dose
News Tribune,
In 2003, I was a successful bank manager and mom to two active boys. I was happy, healthy and my life was exactly where I…
Why Big Pharma must disclose payments to patient groups
The Conversation,
A United States congressional report revealed last year that five opioid manufacturers made more than $10 million in payments…
Opioids are not much better at treating pain than a placebo
World Economic Forum,
Opioids are only slightly more effective than placebos at treating pain, according to a new study.
Opioids offer little benefit in long-term chronic pain treatment, study says
NOLA - New Orleans Local News,
New research suggests that prescription opioids may offer little more benefit than placebos for patients who are being treated…
Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown
Medical Health News,
Treating America’s Pain: Unintended Victims of the Opioid Crackdown, Part 3 – The Solutions The government has addressed the…
Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown
FOX News,
Treating America’s Pain: Unintended Victims of the Opioid Crackdown, Part 3 – The Solutions The government has addressed the…
Doctors caught between struggling opioid patients and crackdown on prescriptions
FOX News,
Treating America’s Pain: Unintended Victims of the Opioid Crackdown, Part 2 – The Doctors As federal and state agencies respond…
Chronic pain patients: The other side of the opioid epidemic
Sign of the Times,
[We feel] we have been betrayed: that policymakers feel that people with substance abuse disorders deserve a life and we pain…
64% of HR pros don't feel equipped to help co-workers addicted to opioids
HR Dive,
Brief Published Dec. 3, 2018 Dive Brief: A new The Hartford survey of 2,000 workers and 500 HR leaders and workers in the U.S.
Fewer Opioids, More Pay: New Tack on How Doctors Prescribe Them
Bloomberg BNA,
By Jacquie Lee Some doctors in Michigan are prescribing as few as four opioid pills for pain relief after a common gall bladder…
6 news Opioid makers spent nearly a million dollars on Utah doctors in recent years, ties now used against
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The following story was written by for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.
Opioid makers spent nearly a million dollars on Utah doctors in recent years, ties now used against ...
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The following story was written by Luke Ramseth for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake…
News story from Stat News on Monday 19 November 2018
Stat News,
Border wall needed to protect against a 'caravan' of a different kind: drugs
The Hill,
As an estimated 4,000 illegal immigrants in a caravan continue to work their way toward the southern U.S.
The opioid epidemic: How population health analytics can combat the crisis overtaking America
Becker's Hospital Review,
October 11, 2018| Print | Email In January 2017, the CDC reported more than 64,000 annual deaths related to drug overdose — a…
New Laws Limiting Opioid Prescriptions Create Undue Barriers
The ASCO Post,
Advertisement Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Among other policy responses to the growing opioid epidemic, many states have…
Chronic pain patients rally at State House for fair prescribing practices
Concord Monitor,
Bill Murphy, co-organizer of a rally outside the state house, argues that prescribing practices are stacked against those with…
Chronic pain patients protest in Valparaiso
Northwest Indiana Times,
VALPARAISO — Chronic pain patients protested Tuesday over government guidelines they say limit their ability to get their…
Opioid Epidemic: Doctors Gave No Reason for Nearly Third of Prescriptions
newsmax.com,
The opioid epidemic gripping the U.S. may have been fueled by doctors who gave no reasons for issuing prescriptions to nearly a…
Prescription Databases May Miss Opioid-Benzo Combinations
MedPage Today,
LAS VEGAS -- Prescription data alone underestimated how many patients combined opioids and benzodiazepines, an analysis of…
Tanezumab's Phase 3 Results: A Promising Sign For Non-Opioid Pain Treatments
Forbes,
08:11am Joshua Cohen Contributor i Healthcare I write about drug value, market access, and healthcare systems Share to facebook…
Treating cancer patients like criminals won't solve the opioid crisis
CNN News,
I got this diagnosis in western Pennsylvania, one of the epicenters of the opioid crisis raging in this country.
Treating cancer patients like criminals won't solve the opioid crisis
Action News Now,
I am a 45-year-old woman who's always been in fairly good health. I practice yoga, run nine miles a week, love kale, avoid red…
After my son's death, I'm helping other families avoid opioids pain
USA Today,
opinion Opinion contributor Published 6:26 p.m. UTC Aug 29, 2018 Two weeks after my son Brian died, my wife came into our…
'Death Certificate Project' Terrifies California Doctors
MedPage Today,
Brian Lenzkes, MD, got a letter last December from the Medical Board of California that left him shocked and scared.
Serenity Prayer inspired me to spare other families the pain that opioids caused mine
The Reporter Times,
Two weeks after my son Brian died, my wife came into our bedroom and found me crying.
How I'm helping spare other families opioids pain
The Greenville News,
Published 2:02 p.m. ET Aug. 29, 2018 My son died after becoming addicted to opioids.
Black opioid pain patients get tested more frequently than whites for illicit drug use, study shows
Modern Healthcare,
Clinicians are more likely to test black patients receiving opioid therapy for illicit drug use than white patients and are…
CDC opioid guideline is causing harm to people in chronic pain
The Hill,
, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.
Doctors prescribe fewer opioids after receiving a letter about a patient's overdose death, study finds
MinnPost,
A new study, published in the August issue of Science, suggests that a rather simple intervention, tried out on doctors in…
Doctors prescribe fewer opioids after receiving a letter about a patient's overdose death study finds
Bioportfolio,
Related Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare News A new study, published in the August issue of Science, suggests that…
COMMENTARY: Doctors, patients feel chill effect from U.S. opioid guidelines
The Chronicle Herald,
Prescription pills containing oxycodone and acetaminophen. (GRAEME ROY / CP) Why is the College of Physicians and Surgeons of…
in a June 26 story
Kansas City Star,
Stephanie Gilmore’s daughter Stephanie Harris began using opioids legitimately at age 15.
The new science of treating lower back pain
Sign of the Times,
© VOX A review of 80-plus studies upends the conventional wisdom. Kathryn Jakobson Ramin's back pain started when she was 16…
The Government’s Solution To The Opioid Crisis Feels Like A War To Pain Patients
Yahoo!,
Meredith Lawrence's late husband died by suicide after his opioid pain prescription was severely restricted.
The Government’s Solution To The Opioid Crisis Feels Like A War To Pain Patients
Yahoo! News,
Jay Lawrence, an energetic truck driver in his late 30s, was driving a semitrailer across a bridge when the brakes failed.
The Government’s Solution To The Opioid Crisis Feels Like A War To Pain Patients
Huffington Post,
Jay Lawrence, an energetic truck driver in his late 30s, was driving a semitrailer across a bridge when the brakes failed.
My husband committed suicide after doctors restricted his pain medication
True Viral News,
A car accident is the reason my husband developed chronic pain. The backlash against opiate addiction and the response caused…
Tennessee's opioid regulations precipitated my husband's death
USA Today,
opinion Tennessean Opinion Published 11:55 p.m. UTC Jul 25, 2018 There have recently been a few minor stories about the closing…
Restricting opioids caused my husband's death
Detroit Free Press,
A car accident is the reason my husband developed chronic pain. The backlash against opiate addiction and the response caused…
Restricting opioids caused my husband's death
Kitsap Sun,
A car accident is the reason my husband developed chronic pain. The backlash against opiate addiction and the response caused…
As N.J. drug deaths rise, the good news is opioid prescriptions rates are declining
NJ.com,
Opioid prescriptions declined by 28 percent from 2013 to 2017 among policy holders at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New…
To End The Opioid Crisis, Doctors Must Acknowledge We Helped Create It
Huffington Post,
I’m a physician who specializes in addiction medicine, which means I’ve been busy lately.
Physical therapy could lower need for opioids
Sign of the Times,
© Maria Belen Farias, UF Health Photography, CC BY-SA Physical therapists Steven Hunter and Laura Hayes teach an unidentified…
Treating pain in children can teach us about treating pain in adults
MedicalXpress,
The U.S. government declared a national public health emergency in October 2017 to address the opioid addiction crisis.
Treating pain in children can teach us about treating pain in adults
The Conversation,
The U.S. government declared a national public health emergency in October 2017 to address the opioid addiction crisis.
Treating pain in children can teach us about treating pain in adults
WTOP,
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Hilary A.
Overdoses, prison, scant treatment: Mother's story shows state of KC’s opioid crisis
Kansas City Star,
Stephanie Gilmore’s daughter Stephanie Harris began using opioids legitimately at age 15.
Physical Therapy Can Lower Need for Opioids — But Many People Can't Afford It
Alternet,
Many people addicted to opioids are first exposed through a medical prescription for pain.
Chronic pain patients fear opioid crackdown will cost them their medication Chronic pain patients fear opioid crackdown will cost them their medication
12 News KBMT,
Published Oct. 18, 2017 “My nerve damage causes pain, and where the scar tissue wraps around the spinal cord it’s like sandpaper…
Legislators are pushing Pennsylvania backward on opioids | Opinion
Philly.com,
Two bills that are currently under consideration by Pennsylvania legislators threaten to take the commonwealth backward on…
Physical therapy could lower need for opioids, but lack of money and time are hurdles
MedicalXpress,
Physical therapists help people walk again after a stroke and recover after injury or surgery, but did you know they also…
Physical therapy could lower need for opioids, but lack of money and time are hurdles
My San Antonio,
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Bishop…