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Nearly 30 percent of patients prescribed opioids had no recorded pain diagnoses
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/nearly-30-percent-of-patients-prescribed-opioids-had-no-recorded-pain-diagnoses Comment; Part of me wonders how accurate this study is; Electronic Health Records are a bane to most physician’s existence. Poorly designed software...
Adolescents Face Large Addiction-Treatment Gap
https://medicalresearch.com/addiction/adolescents-face-large-addiction-treatment-gap/44347/ Comment; A larger order of magnitude in this tragedy when one considers years of potential life lost! Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, MS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Boston...
FDA approves new dosage strength of buprenorphine and naloxone sublingual film as maintenance treatment for opioid dependence Agency is taking additional steps to advance the development of new FDA-approved treatments for opioid dependence and encourage their more widespread use
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm619864.htm?utm_campaign=09072018_PR_FDA%20approves%20new%20form%20of%20maintenance%20treatment%20for%20opioid%20dependence&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua Comment; This is a long-overdue...
Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Actor and Author Who Battled Addiction, Dies at 63
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/obituaries/christopher-kennedy-lawford-dead.html Comment; A great loss, he overcame addiction and used his public status to speak out against it. Christopher Kennedy Lawford in 2005. A nephew of John F. Kennedy, he spent years as a...
It’s Overdose Awareness Day — and overdoses are killing more Americans than ever before The current drug overdose crisis has killed more people than who live in major US cities like Denver and Washington, DC.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/31/17805226/opioid-epidemic-death-international-overdose-awareness-day Comment; Put another way, more Americans died of overdoses in 2017 than were ever killed by guns, car crashes, or HIV/AIDS in a single year in the US....
Cities defiant after Justice Department’s threat on ‘supervised injection sites
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cities-defiant-after-justice-departments-threat-on-supervised-injection-sites/2018/09/04/fcf798d6-b056-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5a62e269a9c6 Comment; I disagree with these...
Feds approve Illinois expansion of Obamacare coverage for opioid addiction
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-feds-approve-obamacare-expansion-0828-story.html Comment; I’m not a big fan of more regulation on physicians; certain doses of opioids must be accompanied by a prescription for an extremely over-priced drug. That’s a big...
Embryonic Expression of the Transforming Growth Factor Beta Ligand and Receptor Genes in Chicken
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969743/ Comment; "Ablation of TGFB1 leads to weaning-age lethality due to autoimmune disease (8) or mid gestation lethality from defects in yolk sac vasculogenesis and hematopoiesis (9)." Thus, it appears that TGFB1 is...
America’s Suicide Crisis Is Worse Than We Thought A new report says officials should be including more deaths from the country’s opioid epidemic.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-28/more-americans-die-from-overdoses-and-suicide-than-diabetes Wow! Lethality of addiction & suicide (so often linked) is worse than diabetes?!? That’s amazing & terrifying! By Michelle Cortez Michelle Cortez...
Panel: Buprenorphine ‘Can Give Patients Their Lives Back’
https://www.aafp.org/news/2018-congress-fmx/20181016fmx-opioids.html Comments; This panel in a meeting of family physicians is a good way to reach out to the very physicians who need to become more comfortable with the idea of helping; “these people are already your...
Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/05/653360644/addiction-treatment-gap-is-driving-a-black-market-for-suboxone?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social Comment; I have no idea how many of my patients on buprenorphine are...
The Trump administration’s threat against safe injection sites is working
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/2/17927864/safe-injection-site-trump-jerry-brown-california Comment; I’m not convinced that “safe injection sites” are actually safe. I think Medication-Assisted Treatment is a MUCH better way to go with a ‘carrot &...
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