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Why Balanced Pain Management Matters as Much as Ever
As a pain management specialist, I can see how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted patients’ access to treatments like targeted injections or physical therapy.
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Can Yoga Solve America’s Opioid Abuse Crisis?
Could the solution to America’s opioid overdose crisis be as close as the nearest yoga studio? A new study from the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California, San Diego found that veterans with chronic low Read more…
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***PRESS RELEASE*** ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT ACCESS RESPONDS TO ICER’S FINAL REPORT ON ABUSE-DETERRENT OPIOIDS
WASHINGTON – Today, the Alliance for Patient Access made the following statement regarding the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review’s (ICER) final report on the value of abuse-deterrent opioid formulations (ADFs). ICER concludes that “existing evidence is Read more…
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***PRESS RELEASE*** STATEMENT ON NEW FDA OPIOID POLICY STEERING COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON – Today the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management made the following statement about FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s announcement establishing an Opioid Policy Steering Committee. STATEMENT FROM BRIAN KENNEDY, ALLIANCE FOR BALANCED PAIN MANAGEMENT STEERING Read more…
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How Balanced Treatment, Innovation & Better Policy Can Help Solve the Opioid Epidemic
“Doctor, make my pain go away.” I hear this plea, in one form or another, from patients on a daily basis. Yet it presents physicians like me with a troubling conundrum. Our nation, embroiled in an Read more…
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We can combat opioid epidemic by changing healthcare policy
As we were racing to the recovery room, we heard screams, that increasing got louder and louder, until it almost became almost too loud for our team to bear. We thought something was terribly wrong. Read more…
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New Opioid Guidelines, Same Coverage Quandry
New pain treatment guidelines underscore a now familiar disconnect: the gap between what patients need and what their health plans will pay for. The American College of Physicians reviewed more than 150 studies to produce Read more…
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What Reduced Opioid Prescribing Means for Patients and Policy
New polling data from The Boston Globe reveals that U.S. physicians are prescribing fewer opioids. But how does the trend impact patients – and the nation’s opioid addiction epidemic? The Boston Globe Data The Globe’s Read more…
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Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients
More than half of doctors across America are curtailing opioid prescriptions, and nearly 1 in 10 have stopped prescribing the drugs, according to a new nationwide online survey. But even as physicians retreat from opioids, Read more…
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Summit on Balanced Pain Management Tackles Access and Education Issues
There’s no way to address America’s prescription drug abuse crisis without balanced pain management, explained the National Institutes of Health’s Linda Porter, PhD, at Tuesday’s Summit on Balanced Pain Management. But clearing the way for Read more…