pain management

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]

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