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…
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The Opioid Risk Tool Has Been Weaponized Against Pain Patients
September 21, 2019 By Dr. Lynn Webster, PNN Columnist I was surprised and deeply disappointed to learn this week that people have been denied opioid prescriptions due to their responses on the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT). As a guest on the DPP Rally Talk Show with Claudia Merandi, I heard from a caller who told…
Insurers want patients to use wearables. That could be a problem.
AUGUST 26, 2019 Andis Robeznieks Senior News Writer American Medical Association @AndisRobeznieks Digital Information Health Playbook A practical guide to implementing digital technologies that take patient care beyond the exam room. Download Now (To obtain this go to the link listed at the end of this post). Insurance companies are promoting healthy lifestyles by having…
An Epidemic of Under Treated Chronic Pain
Posted on September 16, 2019 by Ginevra Liptan, MD I was relieved to read the headline “A Mea Culpa on CDC Opioid Guideline” in a recent edition of Pain Medicine News. Mea Culpa means a formal acknowledgement of fault or error, and gives me hope that the pendulum on opioids may be moving closer back…
Pain Specialists Pile on CDC Opioid Guidelines
Meeting Coverage – Pain Week —Chronic pain patients were left out to dry by Elizabeth Hlavinka, Staff Writer, MedPage Today September 05, 2019 LAS VEGAS — The 2016 CDC guidelines on opioid prescribing have had lasting consequences for patients with chronic pain, an expert said here. In the 3 years since the guidelines were published,…
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