STAT FIRST OPINION By TOM BOWEN AUGUST 12, 2019 I’ve been living with chronic pain for more than a decade. It began in 2009 with nerve damage after emergency groin surgery. Four years later, I fell and hit my head. That fall led to a constant headache, a whistling sound in my ear, back and hip…
18 upstate hospitals, health centers agree to limit opioids prescribed after surgery
By ELLEN ABBOTT • AUG 12, 2019 Dr. Jeffrey Albright. ELLEN ABBOTT / WRVO PUBLIC MEDIA Surgeons from 18 upstate hospitals and health agencies hope changing the way they prescribe medication can impact the opioid crisis. Dr. Jeffrey Albright, a surgeon at Upstate University Hospital, remembered when he was going through medical school almost 20 years ago. “It was still…
New details about Michigan’s opioid crisis: Billions of pills and aggressive suppliers.
Updated: 10:56 AM Today: 9:00 AM As the U.S. opioid crisis gained steam a decade ago, Michigan was flooded by pain pills by suppliers and distributors who seemed more focused on sales than the drugs’ dangers, according to recently released documents. That includes a top account manager who jokingly compared opioids to Doritos in their…
Are Prescribed Opioids the Culprits or the Scapegoats?
10th August, 2019 By Lynn Webster, M.D. This article, in a slightly edited form, first appeared on Pain News Network on August 10, 2019. The Washington Post has recently published a series of stories about the volume of opioids distributed over the past several years. Over 76 billion pills have been distributed throughout the U.S. from 2002 through 2012.…
Uhh—We Don’t Want to Be Sick
National Pain Posted on August 10, 2019 By Liza Zoellick “Patients have figured out that by adopting the sick role and signing up for disability, they can pay their bills and yet in order to validate the sick role status, they have to participate in the healthcare system, which means taking certain types of pills.”…
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