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Stories from The Front – What Chronic Pain Patients Are Saying About Suicide www.nationalpainreport.com/stories-from-the-front-what-chronic-pain-patients-are-saying-about-suicide-8839500.html When our friend, Terri Lewis Ph.D., announced she was looking for data about people with chronic pain who either have considered suicide or whose family member took their own life, we thought we’d help. She is trying to create a subset […]

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An ‘Interview’ With Dr. Andrew Kolodny By Josh Bloom — April 1, 2019 https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/04/01/interview-dr-andrew-kolodny-13921 Dr. Andrew Kolodny, one of the world’s premier experts on addiction and drugs was kind enough to sit down with me to discuss some very tough questions regarding the ongoing opioid crisis in the US. We all owe Dr. Kolodny much gratitude for […]

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FDA identifies harm reported from sudden discontinuation of opioid pain medicines and requires label changes to guide prescribers on gradual, individualized tapering https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm635038.htm [4-9-2019] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received reports of serious harm in patients who are physically dependent on opioid pain medicines suddenly having these medicines discontinued or the dose […]

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  This covers how the CDC Guidelines directly effected and further permanently injured me back in 2016 when they were misapplied to Intractable Pain and Chronic Pain Patients across the country. I had been on the same medication at the same dosage for 6 years without them being increased, and was stable with my pain […]

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PBM executives are heading to Capitol Hill this week. Here are 4 things to watch https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/pbm-executives-head-to-hill-4-things-to-watch Pharma CEOs went before the Senate last month, and now it’s PBMs’ turn to be on the hot seat.  Executives at five pharmacy benefit managers will testify before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday in the latest hearing on solutions to drive […]

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By CHRIS HOLBROOK April 05, 2019 – 6:16 PM A conference committee in the Minnesota Legislature, and/or Gov. Tim Walz, should kill a pair of companion bills on opioid use (SF 751/HF 400) — before the legislation kills victims of chronic pain. This feels-like-we’re-doing-something-good effort to combat a manufactured crisis will hurt more than it […]

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War on opioid abuse is striking the wrong target Prescription drugs help people in pain. They aren’t to blame for the rise in opioid deaths. http://www.aei.org/publication/war-on-opioid-abuse-is-striking-the-wrong-target/ Patients in pain have become collateral damage in the war on opioids. That’s the message of a letter from more than 300 medical professionals, including three former White House drug czars, […]

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Emergency Department Program Aims At Reducing Opioid Use Disorder https://www.news-line.com/PH_news28523_enews Alabama hospital emergency departments have become all too familiar with patients suffering from opioid overdose. The state leads the nation in opioid prescriptions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Jefferson County alone saw 98 deaths from heroin and 104 from fentanyl […]

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