Let's have a round of zero applause for the New York State Department of Health for its June 24th publication to physicians, misnamed "Data to Action Opioid Prescribing in New York State." In a mastery of the self-evident, the authors reache
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Depending upon when you are reading this, Laurie Engel, a long-time chronic pain patient, may or may not be alive; she has been given about six months to live because of an aggressive, deadly cancer that has now invaded her spine.
Let's give West Virginian Senator Joe Manchin the benefit of the doubt.
There was never really much doubt that a class of drugs (1) intended to treat depression and anxiety would fail to act as analgesics (painkillers).
“Everybody knows” that America is undergoing a public health crisis in addiction and death involving opioids. Many media sources -- and even some medical doctors who should know better -- have attributed the causes of this crisis to “over-pr
The recent investigative article in the Washington Post about the devastation that illegal fentanyl has brought to the US was clearly an enormously
Why start an article about a serious debate on a serious topic – whether overprescribing opioids caused today's overdose crisis – with a joke title?
Since I am nothing if not subtle, I was perfectly comfortable writing IV Tylenol As Good As Moose Urine For Post-Op Pain Control back in