TN 2018: opioid prescriptions continued to decrease …opioid overdose deaths…highest in a 5-years

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Pharmacists receive extra training to prevent excess opioid prescriptions MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A Memphis pharmacy company is making sure pharmacists are trained to fight the opioid epidemic by rolling out a new continuing education plan to stop addiction and spare lives. In 2018, during then-Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s administration Tennessee overhauled its prescribing laws […]

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Neither the CDC nor Medicare cites buprenorphine as having an MME

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Buprenorphine Conversions https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/pharmacological/buprenorphine-conversions An update has been made to the PPM Opioid Calculator to remove conversions to and from buprenorphine. Here’s why. While the original launch of the free PPM online opioid calculator in 2012 did not include any conversions to or from buprenorphine due to its complex pharmacology and pharmacokinetics (see below), these conversions […]

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abt 30% of chronic pain pts having opiates discontinued DIED within 5 yrs

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Mortality After Discontinuation of Primary Care–Based Chronic Opioid Therapy for Pain: a Retrospective Cohort Study https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05301-2   This is a pretty long dissertation of this study, appears to be done in/around Seattle WASH in the early 2000’s. So I am not going to post the entire text of the study buy the above link will […]

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