Chronic pain patients are speaking out, saying they are now not able to obtain the medication they need. Posted: Oct 9, 2019 6:46 PMPosted By: Emma Withrow EUGENE, Ore. — Chronic pain patients say they’re struggling due to guidelines regarding opioid prescriptions from the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC originally released the guidelines in 2016 but revised…
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Symptoms of Chronic Pain Posted on August 14, 2018 by MyChronicPainTeamhug (26)like (53)comment (59) share Chronic pain comes in many varieties. People with chronic pain often experience other symptoms that exacerbate pain and worsen disability. Pain sensations People with chronic pain describe many different pain sensations. Different types of chronic pain are often associated with specific varieties of pain. Providing…
What Are the Options for Treating Pain?
What Are the Options for Treating Pain?2019-09-29 14:00pm Pain is the main reason Americans access the health care system, according to the National Institutes of Health. Pharmacists, as the most accessible health care providers, should know about and recommend the most effective pain management. Opioids are often prescribers’ go-to for pain management. Originally extracted from…
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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