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https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/6/15/bad-policy-in-the-name-of-fighting-opioid-addiction (Editor’s note: Last month, PNN reported on the “Post-Surgical Injections as an Opioid Alternative Act,” one of dozens of bills Congress is considering to combat the opioid crisis. HR 5804 would raise Medicare’s reimbursement rate for epidurals and other spinal injections used to treat post-surgical pain. The bill – which was lobbied for by […]
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https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/6/7/cdc-report-ignores-suicides-by-pain-patients The suicide rate in the United States continues to climb, with nearly 45,000 people taking their own lives in 2016, according to a new Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The suicide rate in the U.S. is so high it rivals the so-called “opioid epidemic.” The number of Americans […]
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www.lifenews.com/2018/02/23/heres-the-opioid-crisis-the-news-isnt-talking-about/ We are members of Not Dead Yet, a national grassroots disability rights organization, and some of us are living with chronic pain ourselves. Based on our knowledge of the disability community through personal experience and through our work, we have not seen disabled people with chronic pain experiencing opioid use disorder. What we are […]
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Evidence supports the use of intravenous (IV) ketamine for acute pain in a variety of contexts, including as a stand-alone treatment, as an adjunct to opioids, and, to a lesser extent, as an intranasal formulation, according to the first guidelines on the use of ketamine for acute pain management. Ketamine has captured headlines recently for […]
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Doctor at opiate treatment center in Limestone loses license http://www.bradfordera.com/news/doctor-at-opiate-treatment-center-in-limestone-loses-license/article_031e44d6-7046-11e8-bcb0-af8b955a5884.html A doctor who had been operating an opiate treatment center for several months in the Town of Carrollton Municipal Complex in Limestone, N.Y., has voluntarily surrendered his license to prescribe narcotics to patients at the facility. Dr. Reed Haag confirmed that he had his license […]
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www.nationalpainreport.com/with-more-people-killing-themselves-what-to-do-8836496.html By Geralyn Datz, Ph.D. (Editor’s Note—The recent CDC report on suicide was alarming. Suicide rates have increased in nearly every state over the past two decades, and half of the states have seen suicide rates go up more than 30 percent. While the CDC didn’t release any data about what’s happening in the chronic […]
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When DEA Cracked Down on Opioids, Abusers Moved to Black Market https://consumer.healthday.com/bone-and-joint-information-4/opioids-990/when-dea-cracked-down-on-opioids-abusers-moved-to-black-market-study-734885.html FRIDAY, June 15, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Illegal opioid sales on the internet have surged in the wake of U.S. government crackdowns on prescriptions for the highly addictive painkillers, a new study shows. In 2014, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reclassified the opioid […]
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