Pain Management

Experts agreed that it was appropriate for patients who use methamphetamine or cocaine to continue opioid use if clinician monitoring was increased and tapering was avoided.

Despite the limited data, prior research indicates there are no serious cannabis-related adverse effects in pediatric patients.

The opioid settlement framework could have a significant impact on the future of cannabis distribution and its role in health care.

Pharmacists' expertise is invaluable to prescribers who are unfamiliar with opioid use disorder treatment protocols.

Notably, 65% of the participants experiencing pain at the 2-month follow up were also experiencing pain at their 12-month follow up, suggesting persistent and long-term pain.

A dose of 900 mg per day of gabapentin prior to spine surgery was associated with the lowest pain score among all studied dosages.

Study investigators suggest that there is a higher prevalence of pain and treatment needs in this small population.

A panel released recommendations in accordance with decades of a changing landscape in acetaminophen poisoning and due to an absence of agreed upon guidelines in the space.

No major changes were found in overdose behaviors among individuals who received take-home naloxone.

Author of the book The Journey’s End discusses how extending life at all costs takes away time that patients could be spending with their families during the last moments of their life.

The approval of RiVive naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for nonprescription use provides another tool to help quickly reverse the effects of opioid overdose.

The data could inform how non–steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-mediated mitochondrial uncoupling could affect other diseases.

Nonpharmacologic and nonopioid treatments associated with improvements in pain and/or function that appear comparable to opioid treatments.

Patients can employ numerous measures to alleviate pain, improve mobility, and boost overall health-related quality of life.

With no treatments currently FDA approved, patients arrive at the hospital with no options for treatment beside waiting for the intoxication to pass.

Technicians should take advantage of opportunities to work at a higher level of practice, build their careers.

The drug is available in 2 formulations, including a weekly injection with a lower dose than previously available as well as a monthly injection.

The attitudes of community-based opioid use disorder treatment center staff toward the emergency department as a site of initiation were varied, with some feeling that emergency department-initiated buprenorphine may attract patients who were not experiencing life-threatening emergencies.

Christina Madison sat down with Walter Oronsaye, known as the Phit Pharmacist, to discuss over prescribing as well as social media as a tool for pharmacists.

Common chronic pain conditions included in the analysis were fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, and musculoskeletal pain.

Health care professionals should educate patients that it is possible to effectively manage pain without opioids.

A novel collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania and US Anesthesia Partners is working to drive evidence-based change in benzodiazepine use.

During a fireside chat, USP CEO Ronald T. Piervincenzi, PhD, and the Honorable Dr. Oh Yu-Kyoung, Minister of MFDS, Republic of Korea, discuss interruptions to the medical supply chain and the interventions used.

Proposed rules would permit a telehealth provider to prescribe only up to a 30-day supply of a Schedule III-V non-narcotic controlled substance or buprenorphine through telehealth without the patient first being evaluated in person by a provider.

To eliminate the existing stigma in the community, addiction must be recognized as a treatable condition rather than an immoral act.

Host Christina Madison, PharmD, BCACP, AAHIVP, sat down with Jeffrey Bratberg, PharmD, FAPhA, a clinical professor in the college of pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island

Analysis shows that babies of mothers who used drugs while pregnant were shorter at birth and weighed less during the breastfeeding stage compared with non-drug-exposed infants.

To build a brighter, healthier, and more equitable future for all US citizens, there is an indisputable need to decriminalize psychedelic medicines.

Analysis indicates that there was a larger increase of filled prescriptions for individuals who delivered by cesarean birth.

Some specialty pharmacy programs are even using electronic medical records to send survey tools to patients.