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Opioid Crisis Illuminates the Need to See Pain Medicine Specialists
The opioid crisis has made physicians increasingly wary about prescribing the potentially addictive drugs to their patients in pain. But there is a silver lining – experts in pain medicine, such as physician anesthesiologists, can create individualized pain management plans that include alternatives to opioids that are safer and often work better.
How the Surgeon General plans to fight the opioid crisis
How what we earn affects when we die — AHIP CEO points out problems in the marketplace
How to avoid negative press and fines during the opioid crisis
Good policies and procedures, coupled with a continual focus on high-risk operations will significantly decrease the odds of your hospital from ever making front page news.
What healthcare leaders can learn from the opioid crisis
What we’ve learned from the opioid crisis can guide healthcare leaders to make more informed decisions in the future.
How top healthcare executives can use IT to stem the opioid crisis
Properly configured EHRs are a start. From there, top leadership can employ several tactics to address the difficult and complex challenge.
Are abuse-deterrent opioids the solution to the opioid crisis?
Investing in the development of new, costly, and misleading abuse-deterrent opioid formulations is an unnecessary distraction.
Blaming doctors for opioid crisis is easy, but not the whole story
'We were pushed to make pain the fifth vital sign.'
Can technology fix the silent opioid crisis gripping US hospitals?
Some 10% of pharmacists, nurses, and anesthesiologists appear to be stealing drugs from work. AI and machine learning might provide a solution.
There's a Way To Prevent Opioid Relapse, So Why Isn't It Being Used?
With the growing epidemic in opioid pain killer abuse, there’s an urgent need for more effective treatments. The latest study shows a monthly injection might help
Is it time to change the way we use social media in medicine?
I think that we need to do more to revolutionize the way that we use social media in medicine.
What medicine can learn from the fire department about team-based care
Rather than assume that the culture we perpetuate is status quo, let us be open-minded enough to see its flaws and empowered enough to fix it.
Guest column: How opioid crisis affects our health care
Expect Changes to How your Provider Treats Acute (Short-term) Pain Treatment
I'm an ex-addict. Why was it easy to get prescription opioids?
I told everyone treating me for kidney stones that I had a history of substance abuse. They still gave me multiple prescriptions for opioid pain relief.
Why changing how we view pain can help us address the opioid crisis
Too many of us, too often, think of pain as something that needs to be eliminated, at any cost. But we — doctors, patients, drug makers, and all of us — can be part of a much-needed shi…
Anatomy Of Addiction: How Heroin And Opioids Hijack The Brain
Roughly 2.5 million Americans are addicted to heroin and opioids like Oxycontin. Researchers say addiction takes over the brain's limbic reward system, impairing decision making, judgment and memory.
How four health plans are fighting the opioid epidemic
Health insurers are not sitting back and letting the opioid epidemic put a dent in their efforts to increase care quality and cut healthcare costs. Instead, they have designed holistic approaches t
