pain management

My friends Dan and Diane Henry lost their daughter to pain. Danielle began experiencing migraine disease when she was eight

 

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

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.

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

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

We live in a nation of needless pain!

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]