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Drug Monitoring Program Records Significant Drop in Painkiller Prescriptions – New Hampshire Public Radio
Drug Monitoring Program Records Significant Drop in Painkiller Prescriptions In the past year, the number of narcotic painkillers prescribed in New Hampshire decreased by more than 13 percent, while cases of suspected “doctor shopping” by patients dropped by nearly...
Ouch — common painkillers increase your risk of heart failure – New York Daily News
Ouch — common painkillers increase your risk of heart failure Yet another common painkiller could possibly kill you. Prescription-strength ibuprofen, naproxen and other anti-inflammatory drugs may raise your risk of heart failure almost 20%, according to a new BMJ...
Response to the Surgeon General’s Opioid Pledge: It Misses the Point – Academy of Integrative Pain Managment
Response to the Surgeon General’s Opioid Pledge: It Misses the Point Last week, the Academy of Integrative Pain Management (formerly the American Academy of Pain Management) held its 27th Annual Meeting, educating attendees on a broad range of non-pharmaceutical...
U.S. Surgeon General’s Letter to Prescribers: What’s Missing From This Puzzle? –
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...
Implant for Opioid Addiction Wins FDA Approval – MedPage Today
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 low...
Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause – Scientific American
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...
Pushing the Boundaries: Regionalized PDMPs Helping To Slow the Opioid Epidemic – Pain Medicine 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...
Is the government’s National Pain Strategy doomed to fail? – KevinMD.com
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...