Policy & Ethics

The following is an excerpt printed with permission of The Baltimore Sun.

Henry I. Miller and Andrew I. Fillat

Several months ago, I wrote an article about how UK health authorities have more guts than their U.S. counterparts.

It should be no secret to Canadian pain patients that things aren't exactly rosy up there. Our neighbors to the north have their own set of anti-opioid fanatics (1) to make their lives miserable.

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To everything, there is a season A time to be born, a time to die A time to plant, a time to reap A time to kill, a time to heal A time to laugh, a time to weep

Commercial insurance, that employer-provided benefit, initially a workaround to World War II price controls, provides most health coverage to Americans.

As a volunteer patient advocate, I do my best to stay current on declarations of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concerning the treatment of acute and chronic pain.  Thus I recently reviewed the CDC "Get Informed" page on p

There is widespread anticipation of the availability of vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infections so that Americans can get their lives back to some semblance of normal.

Ten years ago, federal and state governments began their crackdown on the prescribing of opioids to relieve pain.