‘Things Went Too Far’: Minnesota Doctors Keeping Closer Eye On Opioid Prescriptions By Liz Collin September 30, 2019 at 6:28 pm MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota doctors are keeping a closer eye on drugs they prescribe patients during the opioid crisis. Physicians checked the state’s prescription monitoring program more than 240,000 times last month. That’s an 80%…
Category: March 2018
What I Told the DEA
(The Drug Enforcement Administration is taking comments on its Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas for Schedule I and II Controlled Substances. One of our contributors, Jeff Edney filed his comments on Saturday September 21st here.) A DEA document states: “As a result of considering the extent of diversion, DEA notes that the quantity of FDA-approved drug products…
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…
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…
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…
