If you are a RAT : a new type of opioid that accelerates recovery time from pain compared to morphine.

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

New opioid has speedier pain recovery than morphine www.futurity.org/zh853-opioid-beats-morphine-pain-2068842/ It also doesn’t have the side effect of increasing pain sensitivity, according to a new study with rats. Morphine and other opioid-based painkillers are very effective at treating pain initially, but studies have shown that the drugs can make patients more pain-sensitive, prolonging their discomfort and […]

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Minnesota is notifying doctors if they prescribe disproportionate amounts of addictive opioid painkillers compared to their peers

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Minnesota will grade doctors on rates of opioid prescribing State targets care providers who prescribe excessive painkillers. http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-will-grade-doctors-on-opioid-prescribing/511953602/ While many people died from overdoses of illicit heroin or potent synthetic opioids, doctors have traced many cases of drug abuse back to initial prescriptions of common opioids such as oxycodone or hydrocodone that patients received after […]

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The FINAL SOLUTION for someone to end their intractable chronic pain

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Family says Pleasant Grove man committed suicide after going off pain meds too quickly

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Family says Pleasant Grove man committed suicide after going off pain meds too quickly https://www.abc4.com/news/family-says-pleasant-grove-man-committed-suicide-after-going-off-pain-meds-too-quickly/amp/ PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (ABC4 News) – As Utah and the nation fight the opioid epidemic, patients suffering from chronic pain are being forced off of their medications too quickly, according to a local lobbyist. That “force-tapering” had devastating consequences for […]

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