Excellent MSNBC interview with Surgeon General on opioid crisis.
PROP Spearheads Effort to Roll back Pain Assessment Requirements That Foster Dangerous Overuse of Opioids
Critics of how prescription painkillers are administered in the U.S. are calling on health officials to phase out hospital procedures and questionnaires used to manage pain.
Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction — A Century of Federal Drug Control
Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction — A Century of Federal Drug Control Just over a century ago, in March 1915, the Harrison Narcotic Act took effect, requiring anyone who imported, produced, sold, or dispensed “narcotics” (at that time meaning coca- […]
New England Journal of Medicine commentary by PROP’s Jane Ballantyne and Mark Sullivan on management of chronic pain
Pain causes widespread suffering, disability, social displacement, and expense. Whether the issue is viewed from a moral, political, or public health perspective, pain that can be relieved should be relieved. Yet the most rapidly effective drugs for relieving pain — […]
New England Journal of Medicine commentary by PROP’s Jane Ballantyne and Mark Sullivan on management of chronic pain
Opioid Use Linked to Rising Death Rate in Middle-Aged Whites
A sharp rise in death rates among white middle-aged Americans has claimed nearly as many lives in the past 15 years as the spread of Aids in the US, researchers have said. The alarming trend, overlooked until now, has hit […]
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