December 08, 2017 By Ryle Holder, PharmD, Scott Guess, PharmD, and Forest Tennant, MD, Dr. P.H. Myth #1: Above 100mg of morphine equivalence, opioid pain medications are ineffective. NONSENSE! They have no ceiling in most patients and may remain effective at dosages in the thousands. Myth #2: All pain patients who take over 100mg of morphine equivalence are diverting…
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Study Finds Only 1.3% of Overdose Victims Had Opioid Prescription
October 18, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor It’s long been a popular belief that prescription opioids fueled the nation’s opioid crisis and play a major role in overdose deaths. The CDC’s 2016 opioid guideline says as much. “Sales of opioid pain medication have increased in parallel with overdose deaths,” the guideline states. “Having a…
What Does the Federal Government Need to Hear From the Chronic Pain Community?
Posted on October 10, 2019 by Ed Coghlan The U.S. Pain Foundation is encouraging its pain warriors to comment—They need to know what you think by Friday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit input into the development of an Action Plan on the opioid crisis…
A Day in the Life of a Chronic Pain Sufferer
October 17, 2019 By Katie Burge, Guest Columnist My day usually begins around 3 a.m., whether I want it to or not. No matter what time I went to bed or how tired I am, I wake up in those pre-dawn hours, overwhelmed by excruciating pain and trembling from a panic attack caused by the…
Sleep Disturbances May Affect Chronic Pain Outcomes
October 16, 2019 Hannah Dellabella Sleep disturbance may be associated with reduced improvements in pain interference and pain severity in patients with chronic pain, regardless of whether they are treated with opioids, according to results published in Pain Medicine. The study included 240 participants with chronic back pain or hip/knee osteoarthritis (OA) pain who were randomly assigned…
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