Asking emergency department (ED) providers to self-identify their opioid prescribing practices and then providing them with timely, clinically relevant, individualized, and actionable feedback on their actual opioid prescribing data significantly decreases future opioid prescribing among providers who underestimate their baseline prescribing. That is the finding of a study published in the May 2018 issue of… Continue reading Providing Clinicians with Feedback on Their Opioid Prescribing Data Alters Future Prescribing
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3 Things to Understand About America’s Opioid Crisis and Pain Pill Addiction
Each time the American people think the nation’s opioid crisis can’t get any worse – it gets worse. In 2016, 42,249 people died from opioid overdoses, which comes to 116 deaths every day, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, 11.5 million people misused opioids. But, in a nation… Continue reading 3 Things to Understand About America’s Opioid Crisis and Pain Pill Addiction
Medical Marijuana May Help Curb Opioid Use
A study conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health found that there were fewer drivers killed in car crashes who tested positive for opioids in states with medical marijuana laws than before the laws went into effect. The study is one of the first to assess the link between state medical marijuana laws… Continue reading Medical Marijuana May Help Curb Opioid Use
For Millions on Long-Term Opioid Medications, Change Will Be a Challenge
A team of researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System surveyed patients to understand barriers to reducing the use of opioids to manage chronic pain. The results of those interviews were published online on May 20th 2016 in the journal Pain Medicine. A release from… Continue reading For Millions on Long-Term Opioid Medications, Change Will Be a Challenge
Opioid Use: A Public Health Crisis
In response to concerns about overdose deaths in the U.S. due to prescribed opioid pain killers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidelines to help primary care doctors determine when and how best to prescribe them to patients, particularly those with noncancer-related chronic pain. The CDC recommends physicians avoid prescribing opioids such… Continue reading Opioid Use: A Public Health Crisis