By Lisa Sigell November 4, 2015 at 11:15 pm Filed Under: Epidemic, Epidural, Health, Pain, Safety, Treatment LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Back pain: lots of folks have it and can be desperate for relief. But for some people, a common treatment made things a lot worse, and now they’re speaking out. A healthy person cannot imagine…
Category: September 2019
How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients?
Alison Knopf Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid prescribing continues to go down. Pain patients are untreated and suffering. Pharmaceutical companies are being sued and settling. Law enforcement is cracking down on providers. And many physicians, caught in the middle, have stopped prescribing because they don’t want to…
Overshadowed: The Mistreatment of People with Chronic Pain in Response to the Opioid Crisis
Cameron Morgan More than 42,000 people died of opioid overdoses in the United States in 2016—9,000 more than in 2015. That’s the largest yearly increase in recorded history. And given the unwavering incline in annual opioid-overdose deaths since 1999, even more people might have died in 2017. It is clear this crisis needs to be…
OPIOID FACTS: Are we getting the whole picture? “A Physician’s Perspective”
Thomas Kline, MD, PhDJun 14 By Thomas F. Kline MD, for JATH Educational Consortium, LLC, Raleigh NC. Edited by Leslie Bythewood and Kyle Lorentzen September 5th, 2018 Editor’s note: The words heroin, opioids, opiates, and narcotics are synonymous with the functional name: Pain Medicines Is there an epidemic of opioid overdose deaths ? Not really.…
Tapering – Guidance & Tools
Clinical Update Dec. 2018 Overview Over the last 20 years, the liberal prescribing of opioids for chronic pain has created a population of patients who been on long term opioid therapy (LTOT) for several years if not decades. Many patients are on doses well above the CDC recommended upper limit of 90 Morphine Equivalent Dose…
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