Persistent pain is common among the nearly 4 million Americans who arrive each year at hospital emergency departments (EDs) after car crashes. A new study in the journal Pain that compared the two most common pain-relief ...
Nov 21, 2016
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Many patients undergoing hip or knee replacement are still taking prescription opioid pain medications up to six months after surgery, reports a study in Pain, the official publication of the International Association for ...
May 31, 2016
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Bolstering new federal guidelines that advise primary care doctors to carefully weigh the prescribing of opioid painkillers, two experts at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recommending that surgeons ...
Apr 28, 2016
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The results of the ground-breaking SALOME research, published in the JAMA Psychiatry, show chronic heroin addiction now has another effective treatment tool - hyrdomorphone, a licensed pain medication.
Apr 6, 2016
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Patients using medical marijuana to control chronic pain reported a 64 percent reduction in their use of more traditional prescription pain medications known as opioids, a University of Michigan study finds.
Mar 23, 2016
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August approved the opioid painkiller OxyContin for use in children as young as 11, sparking a national outcry prompted by addiction concerns.
Nov 6, 2015
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Overdoses of opioid pain medications frequently occur in people who aren't chronic users with high prescribed opioid doses—the groups targeted by current opioid prescribing guidelines, reports a study in the August issue ...
Jul 15, 2015
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Among people who use medical cannabis for chronic pain, those who also take prescription pain medications are not at increased risk for serious alcohol and other drug involvement, according to a study in the May issue of ...
May 18, 2015
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The Emergency Department (ED) is at the convergence of the opioid epidemic as emergency physicians (EPs) routinely care for patients with adverse effects from opioids, including overdoses and those battling addiction, as ...
May 4, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Both residents and attending physicians are only partly compliant with national opioid prescribing and monitoring guidelines, according to a study published in the March issue of Pain Medicine.
Apr 20, 2015
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