A pharmaceutical company’s recent $1.4 billion settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over probes into its addiction treatment drug, Suboxone Film (buprenorphine and naloxone), has raised concerns about psychiatric drug treatments offered as solutions to the opioid crisis, the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) says. [1] Buprenorphine, one of the…
DEA SAYS IT DOESN’T ‘REGULATE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE’ AMID PATIENT BACKLASH TO PROPOSED OPIOID PRESCRIPTION CUTS
BY BLAKE DODGE ON 10/14/19 AT 1:18 PM EDT After hundreds of chronic pain patients begged the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reconsider its proposed cuts to opioid production, the agency told Newsweek it’s not responsible for their inability to get prescriptions. If the DEA adopts the cuts, they would reduce production of some of…
Why People Using Opioids for Chronic Pain Shouldn’t Stop ‘Cold Turkey’Written by Julia Ries October 14, 2019
Link to original article: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/people-using-opioids-for-chronic-pain-shouldnt-stop-cold-turkey Tags: Opioids, Cold Turkey, Chronic Pain, Health Line,
LETTER: We pain folk are furious, dying and making little progress
Posted at 12:33 PM Many thanks for “The other side of the ‘opioid crisis’ ” by Winona Stalvey. The suffering is immense. Far more than the fatal clumsiness of opiate use disorder and true addiction is the suffering of at least 50 million severe pain sufferers cut off or dangerously reduced while enduring incurable painful diseases and…
6 Stretches for Sciatica Pain Relief
Medically reviewed by Deborah Weatherspoon, RN on April 13, 2017 — Written by David Heitz and Erica Cirino Reclining pigeon pose Sitting pigeon pose Forward pigeon pose Knee to opposite shoulder Sitting spinal stretch Standing hamstring stretch Be safe To view the exercises and to read the remainder of the article go to: https://www.healthline.com/health/back-pain/sciatic-stretches#standing-hamstring-stretch Tags:…
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