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Francie Diep in Pacific StandardApr 85 min read

What If Your Doctor Asked About Your Opioid Use?

Senator Ben CardinMar 103 min read

We’ve Made Progress in the Fight Against Opioids, We’re Not Done Yet

The epidemic of opioid abuse and addiction is a public health crisis that hurts every state in our country, and every region of Maryland. Facing this challenge goes beyond law enforcement and must include…

LarryBenzMar 133 min read

How Opiates Became: A Real Life Fairy Tale

Great EIM blog post on “A Pain Fairy tale” last week by John Childs.

Unfortunately, there is a bigger one that unlike TENS units, has had the unintended consequence of killing millions, addicting millions, and mistreated millions…

The Globe and Mail17 mins ago3 min read

How Globe and Mail reporters traced the rise of fentanyl in Canada

Group Health ResearchNov 9, 20153 min read

Prescription painkiller abuse: Empowering patients to ask questions

by Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD, MPH…

Daniel Raymond in Addiction UnscriptedMar 2, 20155 min read

Injecting Opana: Indiana’s HIV Outbreak and America’s Opioid Epidemic

We can’t end the heroin and opioid epidemic without more harm reduction and drug treatment

K. LanktreeFeb 174 min read

The Appearance Of “W-18": A Product Of The War On Drugs

The recent reports on the appearance of a…

Wendy Holdren16 hrs ago5 min read

#NPFopioids Day 2

Wow. Lots of information today — All of which was fascinating. Let’s jump right in.

First, we heard from Dr. Debra Houry, Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

John F. KeenanFeb 293 min read

My Old Meds – Let’s Not Be Fooled by Pharma’s Newest Attempt to Avoid Responsibility for the Opioid Epidemic

You would think that a group that helped create the opioid epidemic, which certainly has profited from it, and which is acknowledging that its…

Stefan Kertesz, MD, MScJan 1813 min read

Considering CDC’s Proposed 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain: A Good Start that Needs Improvement

A summary of this essay was published on Huffington Post (January, 2016). Below is an extended version of the same piece. It…

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