3rd August, 2019 By Lynn Webster, M.D. This article, in a slightly edited form, first appeared on Pain News Network on August 3, 2019. The National Institutes for Health (NIH) has published a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks input from “stakeholders throughout the scientific research and medical education community and the general public regarding the Centers…
Category: August 2019
Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts
CDC – Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Recent improvements in timeliness and data quality over the last year have prompted a re-evaluation of the length of time that data quality requirements have had to be met for states to be included in “Figure 2. 12 Month-ending Provisional Number of Drug…
Los Angeles Times: With opioid abuse surging, expert panel recommends drug screening for all U.S. adults
Soaring rates of painkiller abuse are one factor that prompted an expert panel to recommend that primary care doctors screen all their adult patients for illicit drug use. (David Maialetti / Philadelphia Inquirer) By MELISSA HEALY STAFF WRITER AUG. 13, 2019, 4:22 PM It’s time for doctors to start asking every patient, every time: Have you…
Some chronic pain sufferers say they are unintentional victims of the crackdown on opioids
Posted: 11:03 AM, Oct 24, 2018 Updated: 8:46 AM, Oct 25, 2018. By: Matthew McClellan INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — As President Donald Trump gets ready to sign new opioid legislation into law, people who suffer from chronic pain worry the bill includes provisions that could hurt them. These people believe they represent the other side of the epidemic. Johnna Magers of…
Five things I wish I knew earlier in my journey with chronic pain
STAT FIRST OPINION By TOM BOWEN AUGUST 12, 2019 I’ve been living with chronic pain for more than a decade. It began in 2009 with nerve damage after emergency groin surgery. Four years later, I fell and hit my head. That fall led to a constant headache, a whistling sound in my ear, back and hip…
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