CDC – OPIOID GUIDELINES SHOULD NOT BE USED TO TAPER PATIENTS April 24, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken its first concrete step to address the widespread misuse and misapplication of its opioid prescribing guideline. In a commentary published in The New England Journal of Medicine,…
A call for action on high-dose opioid prescribing
The Pharmaceutical Journal25 JUN 2019 Despite a decrease in the number of prescriptions, there are still thousands of patients on high-dose opioids. Pharmacy’s mission must be to review whether this is appropriate. Source: JL / The Pharmaceutical Journal Opioid prescribing has stabilised in recent years; while the number of prescription items per 1,000 patients in England rose…
FDA Seeks Feedback On Opioid Blister Packs
Doctors prescribing opioids in blister packs is going to help the opioid crisis, really? What do you the real people with chronic pain feel about this? What do you think would cure this opioid crisis? http://www.facebook.com/groups/CPPNewsSource/permalink/471027603647097
WHY HUMAN SUFFERING SHOULD BROTHER YOU
October 23, 2017 By Margaret Aranda, MD, Columnist Patients go to doctors when they have pain and doctors can give them opioid medication to relieve that pain. That should not bother you, because it is a decision made between the physician and the patient. No doctor has the right to strip a patient of dignity…
