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At PAINWeek 2016, a panel of medical, legal, and pharmacy specialists convened to offer their views on the recently introduced prescribing guidelines for chronic pain from the CDC. In this segment, Dr. Ziegler and Dr. Fudin summarize some of the concerns voiced over the guideline development process...
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The use of interventional procedures is probably going to increase due to the CDC guidelines, because they are emphasizing non-opioid, and non-pharmacological therapies. So this is an important area for primary care doctors to understand, specifically if we look at patients with low back pain, one...
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New research may change the prevailing approach to treating neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), according to the authors of a New England Journal of Medicine article published last week. Currently, babies born to mothers who have used opioids, and who then suffer symptoms of withdrawal, are...
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PAINWeek faculty member Gary Jay discusses what's going on with opioid prescribing today, and why some doctors may be prescribing opioids when they might do better with another medication.
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A number of factors came together to facilitate increased prescribing of opioids and prescribing to more people using higher doses. There was a perceived under treatment of chronic pain. Laws and regulations were passed in many states to permit the use of opioids for that purpose, for which they...
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A study conducted by researchers from NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, Illinois, reports that patients who receive intraoperative methadone during spinal fusion surgery need lower quantities of opioids, both oral and intravenous, to manage their postoperative pain. Lead author Glenn...
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Evidence-based medicine is how we connect research to clinical practice. It started in the 80s and 90s as of way of looking at how studies are done and how they could be applied to clinical care, and it’s gone through a number of changes over the years. Evidence-based medicine now is being applied...
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The nationwide opioid abuse epidemic has directed a lot of attention from the state and federal levels on the primary care provider. The CDC guidelines for the prescribing of opioids for acute pain can do a lot to help a provider to steel himself or herself in the event that there is inquiry into...
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Will recently released prescribing guidelines from the CDC advance the cause of rational opioid therapy? Will they lead to better pain practice and better patient outcomes? Dr. Argoff considers the good, the bad, and the ugly...
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Research conducted at University of North Carolina School of Medicine sheds new light on the cause of a frequently encountered side effect of opioid therapy, intense itching. UNC scientists report that the receptor protein MRGRPX2 may be activated to trigger an immune system response that results in...