by Rick Bunker | Sep 2, 2016 | Featured News
U.S. Surgeon General’s Letter to Prescribers: What’s Missing From This Puzzle? Some people find working jigsaw puzzles to be a great way to spend their quiet time. Many of us who have done this recognize the frustration felt when, after finding the right places for...
by Rick Bunker | May 26, 2016 | Featured News
Implant for Opioid Addiction Wins FDA Approval – Probuphine will be implanted under the skin for 6 months to treat addiction The FDA approved an implantable version of buprenorphine (Probuphine) to treat opioid dependence in patients who are already stable on a...
by Rick Bunker | May 10, 2016 | Featured News
Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause Cracking down on highly effective pain medications will make patients suffer for no good reason Both the FDA and the CDC have recently taken steps to address an epidemic of opioid overdose...
by Rick Bunker | May 4, 2016 | Featured News
Pushing the Boundaries: Regionalized PDMPs Helping To Slow the Opioid Epidemic ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—The expansion of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) across state lines is an important tool in preventing individuals from “doctor shopping” for multiple opioid...
by Rick Bunker | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured News
Is the government’s National Pain Strategy doomed to fail? Over the past few months, the federal government has mobilized against what is being called “the opioid crisis“: a national epidemic of fatal overdoses that in 2014 claimed more than 14,000 lives, the most...
