Addiction to medications used properly under doctors’ supervision is known as iatrogenic addiction. In a NEJM Perspective article, PROP leader Dr. Andrew Kolodny sheds light on how the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)survey wasn’t identifying millions of […]

Medical Doctors, Geneticists and Other Experts Call on CMS to Deny Coverage, and FDA to Rescind Approval of Invalid Genetic Test for Opioid Addiction Test Approved by FDA, Based on Science that Has Largely Been  Abandoned by Main Stream Genetics, […]

Public Citizen, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP), PharmedOut, the National Center for Health Research, and others submitted comments to a docket on Regulations.gov proposing that FDA will use data from the Research, Abuse, Diversion, and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS) system to help monitor […]

Jamie Boyle first got the idea for her new documentary Anonymous Sister in 2009. But to fully flesh out the sobering story about the toll that prescription opioids took on her family, she used 30 years of her family’s own home […]

A large study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) identified 10 predictors of opioid overdose after prescription for chronic pain, which can help clinicians engage in shared decision-making with patients around opioid prescribing. Researchers looked at 28 studies that included almost 24 […]

The Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Pain: Synopsis of the 2022 Updated U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guideline In December 2020, the VA/DoD Evidence-Based Practice Work Group assembled a team […]