The government’s efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous. JACOB SULLUM | FROM THE APRIL 2018 ISSUE Craig, a middle-aged banking consultant who was on his school’s lacrosse team in college and played professionally for half a dozen years after…
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Opinion: Offer patients more opioid-free options for pain
ROY SOTO | THE DETROIT NEWS 7:31 p.m. PDT Sep. 17, 2019 Millions of Americans — including many reading this, our friends and neighbors — live with conditions that cause pain. Overcoming pain safely, as Michigan battles its way through a devastating opioid crisis, has never been more important. This September is National Pain Awareness…
America’s War on Pain Pills Is Killing Addicts and Leaving Patients in Agony
The government’s efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous. JACOB SULLUM | FROM THE APRIL 2018 ISSUE Craig, a middle-aged banking consultant who was on his school’s lacrosse team in college and played professionally for half a dozen years after…
An Epidemic of Under Treated Chronic Pain
Posted on September 16, 2019 by Ginevra Liptan, MD I was relieved to read the headline “A Mea Culpa on CDC Opioid Guideline” in a recent edition of Pain Medicine News. Mea Culpa means a formal acknowledgement of fault or error, and gives me hope that the pendulum on opioids may be moving closer back…
CSC Advises Against Misapplication of the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
Some policies, practices attributed to the Guideline are inconsistent with its recommendations Media Statement Embargoed Until: Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 5 PM, EDT Contact: Media Relations (404) 639-3286 In a new commentaryexternal icon in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), authors of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (Guideline) advise against misapplication of the Guideline that can…

