Posted: 10:53 AM, Jul 15, 2019 Updated: 9:01 AM, Jul 15, 2019 By: Roland Rodriguez CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The next time you go to the emergency room with knee, hip, or back pain, you might be surprised when they don’t offer you narcotics. The Corpus Christi Medical Center (CCMC) is taking crucial first steps…
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Who Criticized for Withdrawing Opioid Guidelines
http://www.painnewsnetwork.org July 13, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor A coalition of international palliative care organizations is protesting a decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to withdraw two guidelines for treating pain with opioid pain medication. “We are extremely concerned that the withdrawal of these guidance documents will lead to confusion and possible extreme…
What a month we have ahead!!
Things have been building up for us here in terms of hospital visits. Starting last month when mom had an exploratory surgery of her heart valves. Now with my ongoing back and when the Venus Stasis Ulcers in my legs had to be repaired again. Here’s the list of our schedule starting with mom’s procedure.…
Access to Opioids Among Chronic Pain Sufferers
7/13/19 Here’s the link to a great article on opioids and us the chronic pain sufferers. Take time to read it and let me know your thoughts. http://www.facebook.com/groups/CPPNewsSource/permalink/482310149185509
MOST RECENT CDC RELEASE PERTAINING TO OPIOIDS.
CDC – OPIOID GUIDELINES SHOULD NOT BE USED TO TAPER PATIENTS April 24, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken its first concrete step to address the widespread misuse and misapplication of its opioid prescribing guideline. In a commentary published in The New England Journal of Medicine,…
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