pain management

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

I’ve written about this stupidity before. I’ll do it again next year. It will still be stupid then. [1]

When Mark Ibsen, MD, spoke as a panelist in the Cato online event “Pain Refugees: Collateral Damage in the War on Drugs” last December, he had no idea that represe

I've written about nonsense like this before, yet it still lives to plague us. 

As an unpaid healthcare writer and patient advocate, I’ve written for 27 years on opioid prescribing, pai

What exactly is a Morphine Milligram Equivalent (MME)? The CDC defines it as

It was an online survey of about 5130 physicians conducted in the last few months. Roughly 2/3rd male, and roughly a third 65 or older, a third between 50 and 65, and the remaining third younger than 50.

Surgeons never let the skin come between them and a problem – it is a fundamental feature of our DNA.

In a just published perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D.

Between increased competition for limited resources in research funding and medical conditions that have powerful and prominent champions, among other issues, it can be especially challenging for rarer conditions like Sickle Cell Disease to remain