Pain Management Resources Washington Clarification Letter on 2017 Opioid Rules was Washington State Boards, Commissions and the Department of Health have composed a letter to clarify the 2017 opioid prescribing rules. We have received reports of patients on chronic opioid therapy whose opioids have been rapidly tapered or discontinued. We are also hearing reports of…
Fentanyl Crisis: What’s driving the drug overdose epidemic?
Posted: 10:32 AM, Sep 26, 2019 Updated: 1:44 PM, Sep 26, 2019 By: Valerie Cavazos TUCSON, Ariz. — Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfellas, Jackpot, Murder 8, and Tango & Cash — all street names of illegal fentanyl. The CDC reports fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that’s 50 times more potent than heroin — 100 times more…
Epidural Epidemic: Routine Pain Treatment Linked To Potential Complications
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…
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…
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