Survey: Pain Patients Reveal How Chronic Opioid Use Begins Patients receiving long-term opioid therapy often transitioned to chronic use (>90 days) after...
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Deaths Involving Fentanyl Rise As Curbing Illicit Supply Proves Tough
Deaths Involving Fentanyl Rise As Curbing Illicit Supply Proves Tough In mid-August, an affable, 40-year-old man from Everett, Mass., overdosed...
Why Painkillers Sometimes Make the Pain Worse
Why Painkillers Sometimes Make the Pain Worse Mark Hutchinson could read the anguish on the participants’ faces in seconds. As...
More Children Are Being Poisoned By Prescription Opioids
More Children Are Being Poisoned By Prescription Opioids Young children and teenagers are increasingly likely to be poisoned by opioid...
Cost of Opioid Rescue Drug Naloxone Becoming Unaffordable
Cost of Opioid Rescue Drug Naloxone Becoming Unaffordable EpiPen isn’t the only rescue medication to undergo huge price hikes. A...
Abuse-Deterrent Opioids: What You Need to Know
Abuse-Deterrent Opioids: What You Need to Know The term “abuse-deterrent” is often misunderstood to mean “abuse-proof.” Abuse-deterrent properties are defined...
FDA Boosts Warning On Danger Of Combining Opioids And Anxiety Meds
FDA Boosts Warning On Danger Of Combining Opioids And Anxiety Meds The Food and Drug Administration is warning that patients...
Scientists Engineer An Opioid That May Reduce Pain With Less Risk
Scientists Engineer An Opioid That May Reduce Pain With Less Risk Once people realized that opioid drugs could cause addiction...
What’s The Best Way To Stop Taking Powerful Prescription Drugs?
What’s The Best Way To Stop Taking Powerful Prescription Drugs? With all the concern about opioid addiction, some patients are...
First ASCO Guidelines for Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors
First ASCO Guidelines for Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors Now for the first time, there are guidelines for physicians on...