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Opioid painkiller prescriptions may run in families

December 12, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: addiction, chronic pain, prescription painkillers

How Untreated Depression Contributes to the Opioid Epidemic

May 16, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: chronic pain, epidemic, prescription drug abuse

Chronic Pain Can Be Managed Without Opioids

July 6, 2016 By Alex Windings

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, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: chronic pain, epidemic, opioids abuse, pain pathways

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