By ERIN SCHUMAKER Oct 12, 2019, 5:02 AM ET NOTE: TO WATCH VIDEOS OR VIEW PHOTOS, GO TO THE “LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE” LISTED BELOW. PHOTO: Close-up of an opened prescription bottle, labelled as containing the opioid hydrocodone, as a number of its pills lie on a white surface, March 14, 2017. PlaySTOCK PHOTO/Getty Images…
What Can Cause a False Positive Drug Test
1/11 Secondhand Marijuana Smoke If you hang out often with someone who puffs on pot, your urine could have traces of THC. That’s the chemical in the cannabis plant that gets you high. But chances are very low that you’ll have enough THC to trigger the positive result in the screens used by the federal…
CHRONIC PAIN SUFFERERS BEG THE DEA TO RECONSIDER PRESCRIPTION OPIOID CUTS
Fox News Debates Whether ‘Sesame Street’ Is Exposing Kids To Substance Abuse Too Soon NOTE: TO WATCH THE VIDEOS WITH THIS ARTICLE GO TO THE, LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE” BELOW. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has proposed reducing the manufacturing of prescription opioids for the fourth year in a row, but chronic pain patients are…
Don’t Force Patients Off Opioids Abruptly, New Guidelines Say, Warning Of Severe Risks
By EDITOR • 20 MINUTES AGOShareTweetEmail Sometimes doctors rapidly taper their chronic pain patients’ opioid doses. Now a federal agency recommends against this.DOUGLAS SACHA / GETTY IMAGES Listen Listening…0:00Originally published on October 10, 2019 5:07 pm There’s no doubt that opioids have been massively overprescribed in U.S. In the haste to address the epidemic, there’s been pressure on doctors to reduce…
HHS Guide for Clinicians on the Appropriate Dosage Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Analgesics
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Co-chairsDeborah Dowell, MD, MPH (CDC) Christopher Jones, PharmD, DrPH (CDC) Wilson Compton, MD, MPE (NIH) Workgroup membersElisabeth Kato, MD, MRP (AHRQ) Joel Dubenitz, PhD (ASPE) Shari Ling, MD (CMS) Daniel Foster, DO, MS, MPH (FDA) Sharon Hertz, MD (FDA) Marta Sokolowska, PhD (FDA) Judith Steinberg, MD, MPH (HRSA)…
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