Here’s another great article regarding opioids. https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2019/10/14/should-rx-opioids-be-sold-over-the-counter
Category: October 2019
Discovery of Brain Protein Could Lead to New Chronic Pain Treatments
October 13, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor Researchers have identified a protein in the brain that appears to play a prominent role in the maintenance of long-term pain — a discovery that could lead to new treatments that stop short-term acute pain from progressing to chronic pain. The protein RGS4 (Regulator of G protein…
Tramadol Is The most dangerous drug in the world
GlobalHealthNews.com September 6, 2019 Imagine a prescription medication that relieves pain just as well as narcotics like Oxycontin, but isn’t addictive. Too good to be true? Turns out, yes. For years, that was the case with Tramadol, a synthetic opioid drug that was released in 1995 under the brand name Ultram to great expectations. This…
The New Norm for Chronic Pain Patients
October 12, 2019 By Rochelle Odell, PNN Columnist Come the new year, I will start my 28th year battling Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Like so many high impact pain patients, I have been experiencing a pain flare that isn’t improving and prevents me from doing many tasks. I am praying it will get better…
What exactly is Prialt?
I am involved with several social media groups that are for those with chronic pain, have a pain pump, supporting someone with pain or a pump and more. In these groups the topic of the medications being used has come up quite often lately. I am going to run several post, each with a brief…
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