AMA welcomes CDC’s revised view on opioids guidelines

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

AMA welcomes CDC’s revised view on opioids guidelines https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-statements/ama-welcomes-cdc-s-revised-view-opioids-guidelines Statement attributable to  Patrice A. Harris, M.D. President-elect of the American Medical Association Chair, AMA Opioid Task Force “The AMA appreciates that the CDC recognizes that patients in pain require individualized care and that the agency’s 2016 guidelines on opioids have been widely misapplied. The guidelines have been treated as […]

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The Stigma and Social Consequences of Chronic Pain: A Patient’s Story

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Karen Smith describes her personal experience with Chronic Pain

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CDC: Opioid prescribing guidelines ‘misimplemented’

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

CDC: Opioid prescribing guidelines ‘misimplemented’ https://www.healio.com/family-medicine/pain-management/news/online/%7B6ecb6d35-6dcc-4413-868d-f15eb605cffc%7D/cdc-opioid-prescribing-guidelines-misimplemented The CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain are not consistently followed, putting patient health and safety at risk, according to a perspective recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine. “In situations for which the evidence is limited, it is particularly important not to extend the […]

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