Pain News Network. January 08, 2021By Pat Anson, PNN Editor Nearly half of chronic pain patients using medical cannabis reported significant improvement in their pain levels and most were able to reduce or stop their use of opioid pain medication, according to a large new study. The findings, recently published in the journal Cureus, involved…
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Why America’s Opioid Crisis Is Really a Drug Crisis — Pain News Network
Why America’s Opioid Crisis Is Really a Drug Crisis — Pain News Network — Read on http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2019/10/25/why-americas-opioid-crisis-is-really-an-overdose-crisis
12 Myths About Opioid Pain Medication
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…
The New Norm for Chronic Pain Patients
October 12, 2019 By Rochelle Odell, PNN Columnist Come the new year, I will start my 28th year battling Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Like so many high impact pain patients, I have been experiencing a pain flare that isn’t improving and prevents me from doing many tasks. I am praying it will get better…
Opioid Breathalyzer Test Developed
October 04, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor Chronic pain patients have grown accustomed having their urine — and sometimes their blood and hair – analyzed for opioids and other drugs. Someday soon they could be taking opioid breathalyzer tests. In a small pilot study, researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed and…
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