Enlarge this image The federal government’s new opioid prescribing guidelines may help doctors better manage patients with chronic pain who need consistent…
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Recently, I was at a health care facility in a semi-urban region, less than 100 miles from a major metro. It had…
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I’ve noticed a frightening trend in the latest research on patients taking prescribed opioids: whatever the negative outcomes, researchers attribute them to…
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Medical care was never intended to be daily fights against insurance companies
by Robert Bonakdar MD March 27, 2019Last month I saw Joan, a woman who has had low back pain for years. She’d been through the ringer like every…
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Last week I took the naloxone challenge. I walked up to a pharmacy window, waited in line, and requested naloxone from the…
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The value of personal narratives in addiction treatment and integrated care
by Aine M. Greaney March 26, 2019I was standing behind my trolley in our local supermarket when, in my wallet, I came across that drawing of a human…
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Why staying ahead of your pain with opioids is the wrong advice
by Myles Gart MD March 22, 2019I often hear the mantra, “You must stay ahead of your pain, or else.” The president of the American Academy of Pain…
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I recently read an article — “California Doctors Alarmed As State Links Their Opioid Prescriptions to Deaths” — that infuriates and frightens…