opioids

Pain medicine has long confronted a seemingly unavoidable pharmacologic bargain: the drugs most capable of relieving severe pain could also produce euphoria, physical dependence, respiratory depression, and, in vulnerable individuals, addict

Drug addiction destroys lives. It leaves children orphaned, wrecks the health of users it doesn't kill and turns the downtowns of major cities into homeless encampments.

The government’s misguided attempt to address the opioid overdoses did more than change prescribing practices. It changed the relationship between doctors and patients, and not for the better.

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For many years, the medical establishment has argued, and in my view correctly, that addiction is a legitimate neurobiological condition that may often require long-term pharmacologic treatment, including with an opioid such as buprenorphine or me

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For those who question Andrew Kolodny’s grasp of drugs and pharmacology, his latest op-ed

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For years, we’ve been told a simple story about the “opioid epidemic”: first, doctors prescribed too many pills, then reformulated OxyContin “drove” people to heroin, then fentanyl arrived, and now a wave of ultra-potent synthetics is killing “naï