Opioid Hysteria and the Demonizing of Dsuvia

Opioid Hysteria and the Demonizing of Dsuvia: By John Burke, Guest Columnist Recently the FDA approved a new sublingual formulation of sufentanil -- called Dsuvia -- for the management of moderate to severe acute pain in hospital-like settings. This would include surgical centers and emergency departments. When the FDA announced this appro

Study: Long Term Opioid Use Rare After Surgery

Study: Long Term Opioid Use Rare After Surgery: Pat Anson, Editor It’s become a popular belief that many people become addicted to opioid pain medication after surgery. According to a recent national survey , one in ten pain patients believe they became addicted or dependent on opioids after they started taking them for post-operative pain.

AMA: Patients Being Harmed by Rx Opioid Crackdown

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 This story illustrates the problems we all confront every day in our current dysfunctional health care system,” McAneny said. “The health plan does not have the chart, doesn’t know the patient, and basically countermanded my orders without even telling me using the prior authorization process. How have we let health plans determine the course of care? They call this quality?



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AMA: Patients Being Harmed by Rx Opioid Crackdown: By Pat Anson, PNN Editor Patients are being harmed by the crackdown on opioid pain medication and increasingly “burdensome” requirements for prior authorization, according to the president of the American Medical Association. “The pendulum swung too far when pain was designated a vital sign, and n

The Difference Between Intractable and Chronic Pain

The Difference Between Intractable and Chronic Pain: By Forest Tennant, MD, DrPH The current attempts by a number of parties to castigate and humiliate pain patients and their medical practitioners is not just pathetic and mostly false, it is dangerous to the fate and life of many intractable pain (IP) patients.

Why Women With Perfect Husbands Are Unfaithful: What's Missing?

Why Women With Perfect Husbands Are Unfaithful: What's Missing?: Women who cheat on perfect men are women that are not with perfect men. The end.

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Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force

Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force: The Task Force will provide advice and recommendations for the development of best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication.

Nearly half of opioid-related overdose deaths involve fentanyl via @NIDAnews

Nearly half of opioid-related overdose deaths involve fentanyl via @NIDAnews: An analysis of opioid-related overdose deaths found that synthetic opioids, such as illicit fentanyl, have surpassed prescription opioids as the most common drug involved in overdose deaths in the U.S.

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Products - Vital Statistics Rapid Release - Provisional Drug Overdose Data

Why ‘The Bleeding Edge’ Gave Me a Panic Attack

Why ‘The Bleeding Edge’ Gave Me a Panic Attack: By Emily Ullrich, Guest Columnist If you haven't seen it yet, you've likely heard the buzz about The Bleeding Edge on Netflix. This documentary should be seen by every adult in America, not just chronically ill or chronic pain patients. The Bleeding Edge gives insight and affirmation to those

12 Myths About Opioid Pain Medication

12 Myths About Opioid Pain Medication: 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 pati

Older Americans Rarely Abuse Opioid Medication

Older Americans Rarely Abuse Opioid Medication: By Pat Anson, Editor Three out of four older Americans who are prescribed opioid pain medication say they take it less often or in lower amounts than prescribed, according to a new national poll. Only 6 percent said they took opioids more frequently or in higher doses than prescribed. The onli

Living with a Beast

Living with a Beast: By Cathy Kean, Guest Columnist I am living with a beast who is cold, heartless, unmerciful, uncaring and cruel. Always lurking around me, making my life so challenging, so exhausting, and so painful. Not only physically, but mentally, spiritually and emotionally.   This beast

Living with a Beast

Living with a Beast: By Cathy Kean, Guest Columnist I am living with a beast who is cold, heartless, unmerciful, uncaring and cruel. Always lurking around me, making my life so challenging, so exhausting, and so painful. Not only physically, but mentally, spiritually and emotionally.

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FDA Uncovers Errors in Opioid Database

FDA Uncovers Errors in Opioid Database: By Pat Anson, Editor The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified potentially serious errors in a database of opioid sales maintained by IQVIA - a private company that provides data to the federal government on the volume of drugs sold by manufacturers and wholesalers to pharmacies and hosp

Medical Freedom: Cathy Kean

Medical Freedom: Cathy Kean



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I-Team Exclusive: The real numbers behind Nevada's opioid deaths

I-Team Exclusive: The real numbers behind Nevada's opioid deaths: You've probably heard political figures make the claim that at least one Nevadan dies every day from an opioid overdose. That figure of more than 360 opioid deaths per year in our state has been repeated over and over, but is it true?

Pain and Addiction Should Be Treated Separately

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Rep. Roe supports method in which VA reduced opioids

Rep. Roe supports method in which VA reduced opioids: Despite continued criticism from outspoken veterans, a renowned addiction psychiatrist and others, Congressman Phil Roe (R), TN-District 1, says he still supports the way the Department of Veterans Affairs drastically cut opioid prescribing.

Getting the Story Right About Opioids

Getting the Story Right About Opioids: By Pat Anson, Editor Many chronic pain patients feel they are wrongly portrayed in the media as malingerers and addicts – and that the growing difficulty they have just getting their pain treated is being ignored by the medical profession. There’s a fair amount of truth to that. Which is wh

The Other Side of Opioids - Shows - Coast to Coast AM

The Other Side of Opioids - Shows - Coast to Coast AM: George Knapp and guests explored how Americans who rely on opioid medications for pain are in anguish because of govt. pressure to reduce prescriptions.

Opioid Overdoses Rise in Intensive Care

Opioid Overdoses Rise in Intensive Care: By Pat Anson Editor Opioid overdose deaths in intensive care units (ICUs) have risen sharply in recent years -- primarily due to heroin --  according to a large new study involving 162 U.S. hospitals in 44 states. The research findings , published in the Annals of the American Tho

Lies, Damned Lies, and Overdose Statistics

Major discrepancies in CDC overdose statistics!

New study just coming out states CDC over-exaggerated suicide due to prescription opioids by outlandish margin!



Lies, Damned Lies, and Overdose Statistics: By Pat Anson, Editor “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” That famous quote, often attributed to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, was first used by Mark Twain in 1906. One hundred and ten years later, we still don’t know who said it first or why.



CDC Admits Rx Opioid Deaths ‘Significantly Inflated
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Medical Freedom: Cathy Kean

Medical Freedom: Cathy Kean

A Pained Life: An Activism Primer

A Pained Life: An Activism Primer: By Carol Levy, Columnist Those of us who write columns and articles, or comment and tweet about chronic pain, beat the same drum, repeatedly: The world needs to hear us. We have to make our voices heard. Unfortunately, the most common response seems to be along the lines of “We can't.” Th

Are CDC Opioid Guidelines Causing More Suicides?

Are CDC Opioid Guidelines Causing More Suicides?: By Pat Anson, Editor A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documented a disturbing trend in suicides in the United States. Suicides increased by 24 percent from 1999 to 2014, and are now the 10th leading cause of death in the country.    In 2014, n

Committee Calls on Administration to Protect Medicare Patients From Opioid Epidemic

Committee Calls on Administration to Protect Medicare Patients From Opioid Epidemic: Kevin Brady, R- Texas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release:. As part of the Ways and Means Committee's ongoing bipartisan work to combat the opioid epidemic, Chairman Kevin Brady and Ranking Member Richard Neal, along with Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam and Ranking Member Sander Levin today made specific...

Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission

Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission: (2017). Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission. Postgraduate Medicine: Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 332-335.

Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission

Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission: (2017). Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission. Postgraduate Medicine: Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 332-335.

Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission

Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission: (2017). Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission. Postgraduate Medicine: Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 332-335.

Opioid Prescription Control: When The Corrective Goes Too Far

Opioid Prescription Control: When The Corrective Goes Too Far