March 15, 2019 Pat Anson, PNN Editor The CDC opioid prescribing guideline has harmed pain patients, significantly reduced their access to pain care, and forced many patients to turn to alcohol and other drugs for pain relief, according to a large new survey of over 6,000 patients and healthcare providers by Pain News Network. Today…
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Are Prescribed Opioids the Culprits or the Scapegoats?
10th August, 2019 By Lynn Webster, M.D. This article, in a slightly edited form, first appeared on Pain News Network on August 10, 2019. The Washington Post has recently published a series of stories about the volume of opioids distributed over the past several years. Over 76 billion pills have been distributed throughout the U.S. from 2002 through 2012.…
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What the JAMA Opioid Study Didn’t Find…
The following article will interest anyone who uses or should I say has used an opioid to help control their pain. I found this on the Pain News Network website, the internet address is listed below. March 10, 2018 By Roger Chriss, Columnist A recent opioid study published in the Journal Of the American Medical…
Pain News Network and the CDC Article (10/11/16)
WARNING to all People in Pain, do tou currently use an opioid to control your pain? Use the following link to go to an article posted by PAIN NEWS NETWORK, earlier this week (Tuesday, 10/11/16) regarding the CDC looking to cut the production and sale of opioids by 25% in 2017. The article “Chronic Pain…
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