Steamboat health care professionals are skeptical about the bill to treat chronic pain News | August 24, 2019 A new law allows Colorado doctors to recommend medical marijuana to treat pain in cases where they would otherwise prescribe opioids. While lawmakers saw it as a solution to the state’s opioid crisis, health experts in Steamboat said…
Category: August 2019
Doctors’ reluctance to prescribe opioids hurting chronic pain sufferers.
BY: JASON PEDERSON AUGUST 23, 2019, 2 MIN READ Battling the opioid epidemic has caused some unintended casualties: chronic pain sufferers. KATV traveled to Hot Springs to visit with a man who says he and his neighbors need help. Reverend Dan Ash has lived with chronic pain since 1980 when he was in a bad…
Social Media and Chronic Pain: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Posted on August 23, 2019 by Denise Hedley When I was first diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in December 2009, I really didn’t know all that much about it. I had been in some degree of pain for many years, just not anything like this. Being the research junkie that I am, I turned to the Internet…
I Am Tired of Being Judged for Using Opioids to Manage My Pain
Daniel Permenter, The MightyJuly 6, 2019, 11:45 AM PDT I have spoken on opioid use before and how it is getting harder and harder to receive a prescription. The opioid crisis seems to be in the news in a lot of places from talk radio, to the nightly news, to even Congress. I personally have…
A California State Pain Policy May Be in the Works
Posted on August 22, 2019by Ed Coghlan A meeting in California’s state capitol this month produced by one of the state’s leading pain advocates will result in the introduction of legislation later this year that will create a California State Pain Policy. And the legislation promises to be ambitious. “We are very pleased with the meeting…
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