“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…
21st Century Cures offers much-needed help for those suffering from addiction but work remains to improve access to non-opioid pain therapy options WASHINGTON – Today, the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management (AfBPM) made the following Read more…
After four years of opioid treatments, Jim Pershing had had enough. Mr. Pershing served three tours of duty in Vietnam as a Radioman for the navy. There, he became exposed to Agent Orange, which caused Read more…
The Obama administration’s plan offers much needed help for those suffering from addiction but doesn’t address non-opioid therapy options WASHINGTON, July 6, 2016 – Today, the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management (AfBPM) made the following statement Read more…
In 2001, Mariah O’Brien was severely injured when the car she was riding in was hit by a vehicle traveling 70 mph on a Chicago expressway. “I broke my neck in two places and my Read more…