CDC: Painkillers No Longer Driving Opioid Epidemic
Published by Pain News Network A top official for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged that prescription painkillers are no longer the driving force behind the nation’s so-called opioid epidemic. In testimony last week at a congressional...Chronic pain sufferers feel stigma amid opioid crackdown
Published by The Tennessean Bridgette Rewick has experienced pain — sometimes agonizing — for all of her adult life. At 56 years old, the mom from Brentwood in Middle Tennessee is on disability. She doesn’t work. She can’t kneel, wear high-heeled shoes because of her...Acupuncture becomes popular as battlefield pain treatment
Published by Stars & Stripes About 50 flight surgeons from 21 countries wrapped up a day of training at an international medical conference here this week with matching gold-plated studs set in their ears. Their ears sparkled in the name of medicine: This was a...CDC Guideline on Prescribing Opioids: Some Major Concerns
Published by Clinical Pain Advisor In his presentation at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), Jeffrey Fudin, PharmD, DAAPM, FCCP, FASHP, adjunct associate professor at Western New England University College of Pharmacy, highlighted...Connect
