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…
Category: March 2018
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…
Government crackdown on prescription opioids leaving chronic sufferers in a world of pain
7.30 By Madeleine Morris Updated Mon at 12:25 am PHOTO: Opioids are used in painkillers such as codeine, oxycontin and fentanyl, among others. (AP: Jessica Hill) Patients using painkillers and doctors prescribing them have been put on notice by the Federal Government, as it tries to head off a US-style opioid epidemic. Key points: A government crackdown on prescription…
Email members of Congress and ask them to hold a hearing on the new report on pain.
“We have a federal blueprint on pain. Now Congress must act.” This engagement is for all constituents to send an email to their legislator. A new, congressionally mandated report has the potential to improve care for the 50 million Americans who live with daily pain. It provides a blueprint for pain management that is multidisciplinary,…
Roy Green: Chronic pain patient’s secretly recorded phone plea for help
BY ROY GREENGLOBAL NEWS Posted August 3, 2018 5:10 pm Updated August 7, 2018 2:31 pm The ‘compassionate’ Canadian health care system is denying chronic pain sufferers access to opioids. Roy Green speaks with a woman who needs them for her spinal cancer pain.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO – McMaster University Beth was born with spinal cancer. She…
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