https://whyy.org/articles/inter-party-sniping-a-last-minute-executive-order-over-opioid-prescribing/
Friday is the deadline for Governor Tom Wolf to sign or veto a bill that would create a drug formulary for Pennsylvania's workers' compensation program.
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https://scopeofpain.org/
A series of live and on-demand online educational activities to help doctors more safely and effectively manage patients with chronic pain using opioid...
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1105681/full
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted healthcare operations affecting many patients with chronic pain and substance use disorder. Our study aimed to e...
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https://kffhealthnews.org/news/doctors-opioid-prescribing-habits-change-comes-in-small-doses/
Research out Wednesday indicates that guidelines are making strides in cutting back the number of pain pills doctors offer after specific types of surgeries.
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https://www.aamc.org/advocacy-policy/washington-highlights/hhs-relaxes-regulations-around-prescribing-opioid-addiction-drug-buprenorphine
HHS issued new guidelines around prescribing the opioid addiction drug buprenorphine.
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2022-04-09/cdc-weighs-new-opioid-prescribing-guidelines-amid-controversy-over-old-ones
Many blame the agency's earlier guidance for suffering and even suicide risk among chronic pain patients. Critics say the updated advice may not fix the...
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-doctor-40-years-prescribing-opioid-pills
A Virginia doctor was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for prescribing half a million doses of opioids to patients over a two-year period, prosecutors...
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https://www.iasp-pain.org/evaluating-adherence-of-evidence-based-post-operative-discharge-opioid-prescribing-guidelines-and-patient-outcomes-two-weeks-post-discharge/
There is a growing public health concern regarding inappropriate prescribing practices of discharge analgesia. A tertiary Australian hospital first developed...
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