September 12, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor The Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing more cuts in the supply of hydrocodone, oxycodone and three other opioid pain medications in 2020. If approved, it would be the 4th consecutive year the DEA has made steep reductions in opioid production quotas. For the fourth consecutive year, the…
America’s War on Pain Pills Is Killing Addicts and Leaving Patients in Agony
The government’s efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous. JACOB SULLUM | FROM THE APRIL 2018 ISSUE Craig, a middle-aged banking consultant who was on his school’s lacrosse team in college and played professionally for half a dozen years after…
Opinion: Offer patients more opioid-free options for pain
ROY SOTO | THE DETROIT NEWS 7:31 p.m. PDT Sep. 17, 2019 Millions of Americans — including many reading this, our friends and neighbors — live with conditions that cause pain. Overcoming pain safely, as Michigan battles its way through a devastating opioid crisis, has never been more important. This September is National Pain Awareness…
