December 11, 2017 Lisa Rapaport When one person in a household gets prescribed opioids, the other people who live with them are more likely to get their own prescriptions for these narcotic painkillers, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on about 12.6 million people living in a household where someone was prescribed opioids and […]
How Untreated Depression Contributes to the Opioid Epidemic
Olga Khazan May 15, 2017 It can sometimes seem strange how so much of the country got hooked on opioids within just a few years. Deaths from prescription drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone have more than quadrupled since 1999, according to the CDC. But pain doesn’t seem to be the only culprit: About one-third […]
Chronic Pain Can Be Managed Without Opioids
The headlines about the opioid epidemic are ubiquitous. Still, appropriate anger has been expressed by the public over the repetitive statement of the problem without viable solutions, especially for those with chronic pain. I recently did a TEDxNashville talk describing how we got into this opioid epidemic, and the evidence-based solution to get us out, […]
