President Donald Trump declared America’s opioid crisis a public health emergency, announcing, “We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.” But how? The president opted not to declare the situation a national emergency, despite Read more…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…