NSAID Use Remains Complex

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

NSAID Use Remains Complex Review leads to recommendations and warnings on the use of NSAIDs for pain. https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/news/nsaid-use-remains-complex NSAIDs: Quick History Aspirin, the first nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug or NSAID, was developed in 1897. It was not until the 1950s that non-aspirin NSAIDs became available and forever changed the treatment of pain. As a class of […]

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There was no sound evidence of Acetaminophen’s ability to treat most all painful condition

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Pharmaciststeve

Bureaucrats are telling your doctor how to treat pain. And patients suffer needlessly https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/02/16/fear-opioids-causing-patients-needlessly-suffer-severe-pain/11254143002/ Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient-doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never-ending war on drugs. A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and […]

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