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Guest Blog – Dr. Stefan Zavalin with Love to Move

September 7, 2021 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

Dr. Zavalin is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who created Love to Move to help people move more to improve mental, physical and emotional wellness and way of life. You can find Love to Move on Instagram – @_lovetomove_ or by visiting their website https://www.ltmmtl.com/. Enjoy today’s guest blog from our friend, Dr. Stefan Zavalin […]

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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

Tennesseans participate in latest nationwide effort to fight opioid crisis

November 1, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

Joel Ebert October 28, 2017  Inspired after attending a conference about pain management and opioid stewardship, Jeffrey Hodrick, an orthopedic surgeon with the Southern Joint Replacement Institute, decided to do something about the ongoing opioid crisis that has impacted Tennessee. After approaching administrators at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, Hodrick and others at his practice and the […]

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One unexpected effect of Tennessee’s opioid crisis? Longer jail stays for women

October 23, 2017 By Alex Windings 1 Comment

October 22, 2017 Anita Wadhwani Jessica Carter was in bed with her boyfriend, still high on methamphetamines and painkillers, when members of a Williamson County drug task force busted down the door with guns drawn. Carter, her boyfriend and boyfriend’s brother were each charged with the same 11 drug-related felony offenses. Ten months later, the two men […]

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Dying at home in pain doesn’t keep relatives from stealing the pills

August 22, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

August 21, 2017 Melissa Bailey  Nothing seemed to help the patient — and the hospice staff didn’t know why. They sent home more painkillers for several weeks. But the elderly woman, who had severe dementia and incurable breast cancer, kept calling out in pain. The answer came when the woman’s daughter, who was taking care […]

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Opioid Prescriptions Fall After 2010 Peak, C.D.C. Report Finds

July 7, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

Opioid Prescriptions Fall After 2010 Peak, C.D.C. Report Finds

July 6, 2017 Abby Goodnough WASHINGTON — The amount of opioid painkillers prescribed in the United States peaked in 2010, a new federal analysis has found, with prescriptions for higher, more dangerous doses dropping most sharply — by 41 percent — since then. But the analysis, by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also […]

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Patients With Mental Disorders Get Half Of All Opioid Prescriptions

July 6, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

June 27, 2017 Vickie Connor  Adults with a mental illness receive more than 50 percent of the 115 million opioid prescriptions in the United States annually, according to a study released Monday. The results prompted researchers to suggest that improving pain management for people with mental health problems “is critical to reduce national dependency on opioids.” […]

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1 in 4 Americans Knows Someone Hooked on Opioids: Poll

May 24, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

May 22, 2017 Robert Preidt  More than a quarter of Americans — and 1 in 3 millennials — say they know someone addicted to opioids or prescription painkillers, according to a new survey from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Also, most respondents from the poll of more than 1,000 adults believe treatment is a better […]

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Worse pain outcomes after knee replacement for patients who took opioids before surgery

May 22, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

May 18, 2017 Six months after knee replacement surgery, pain outcomes were not as good for patients who previously took prescription opioids, according to a study in the May 17 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. “Our results should be viewed as a warning that using opioids during the preoperative period may […]

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How Do Former Opioid Addicts Safely Get Pain Relief After Surgery?

April 21, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

Nashville Public Radio  April 20, 2017 Nearly 1.5 million Americans were treated for addiction to prescription opioids or heroin in 2015, according to federal estimates, and when those people get seriously hurt or need surgery, it’s often not clear, even to many doctors, how to safely manage their pain. For some former addicts, what begins […]

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