Painkiller Tramadol Linked to Low Blood Sugar Study finds the drug may be riskier than expected By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Dec. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) — The narcotic painkiller tramadol (Ultram) seems to be associated with an increased risk of dangerously low blood sugar, Canadian researchers report. Tramadol is a narcotic drug whose […]
J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print] A Partnered Approach to Opioid Management, Guideline Concordant Care and the Stepped Care Model of Pain Management. Dorflinger L, Moore B, Goulet J, Becker W, Heapy AA, Sellinger JJ, Kerns RD. Abstract BACKGROUND: Pain is the most common presenting problem in primary care. Opioid […]
Deaths From Narcotic Painkillers Quadrupled in Past Decade: CDC Increases highest among whites, and people between 55 and 64 By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter Story Source TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2014 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans dying from accidental overdoses of narcotic painkillers jumped significantly from 1999 to 2011, federal health officials reported Tuesday. […]
Published: Jul 1, 2014 By John Fauber, Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today; Kristina Fiore , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Story Source Overdose deaths from both prescription opioids and heroin continued to rise in 2011, the most recent year for which data were available, according to the CDC. While prescription opioid deaths followed a more […]
The New York Times By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS APRIL 13, 2014 Full Story Doctors are prescribing opioid painkillers to pregnant women in astonishing numbers, new research shows, despite the fact that risks to the developing fetus are largely unknown. Of 1.1 million pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid nationally, nearly 23 percent filled an opioid prescription in […]
Research · March 14, 2014 Full Story Journal Reference TAKE-HOME MESSAGE In this cohort study, 85% of over 14,000 patients who reported chronic nonmalignant pain did not use opioids. Occasional and persistent use was reported in 12% and 3% of patients, respectively. In addition, about 75% of patients who did use opioids reported that their […]
Pauline Anderson January 21, 2014 Full Story In the latest response to the call from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation for recommendations on the most overused interventions, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has issued its list of top 5 tests and therapies that are of questionable usefulness in the field of […]
Practical Pain Management Volume 13, Issue #10 November/December 2013 Full Story: http://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/pharmacological/opioids/ask-expert-do-nsaids-cause-more-deaths-opioids Question: I have recently read a lot on Twitter that NSAIDs cause more deaths than opioids. Can you clarify if that is true? Answer: Balancing the benefits of well-controlled pain with the risks of analgesic use is complicated and often challenging for health […]
Orthopedics Today, November 2013 Javad Parvizi, MD FRCS; Fatih Küçükdurmaz, MD As if the numerous adverse effects of opiates on the human body were not enough, emerging evidence unravels a link between opioids and infection. The link between opioids and infection was noted in the late 1980s during HIV research. Epidemiological studies demonstrated that the […]
Public health advocates are increasingly focused on illness and deaths caused by inappropriate use of controlled substances — in particular, opioid analgesics. Opioid prescriptions have increased dramatically, by more than 300% between 1999 and 2010.1 This increase has led to substantial iatrogenic disease. Most strikingly, the number of deaths due to overdose in the United States […]
The New York Times By SABRINA TAVERNISE JULY 2, 2013 PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Prescription pain pill addiction was originally seen as a man’s problem, a national epidemic that began among workers doing backbreaking labor in the coal mines and factories of Appalachia. But a new analysis of federal data has found that deaths in recent years have […]
Jul 2 2013, 4:52 PM (ET) By MIKE STOBBE ATLANTA (AP) – Overdose deaths in the U.S. are rising fastest among middle-aged women, and their drug of choice is usually prescription painkillers, the government reported Tuesday. “Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are dying at rates that we have never seen before,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, […]
Deborah Brauser June 14, 2013 Misperceptions about opioid dependence, including how to screen for and treat the disorder, continue to persist for the public and for many clinicians, new research suggests. An online survey of 1000 adults chosen at random plus 200 primary care physicians who were not addiction certified showed that almost half of […]
Marissa Luck May 23, 2013 Long-term use prescription painkillers, known as opioids, have been linked to a number health of problems, and researchers sought to understand the effects the drugs on men with back pain. They analyzed the medical records of more than 11,000 men with back pain and examined how often they received prescriptions […]
Pauline Anderson May 17, 2013 Story Source Medscape.com aking opioids, especially high doses and over several months, is strongly associated with markers for sexual dysfunction, a new study shows. Men with back pain being treated long term with potent opioids were about 50% more likely to fill a prescription for erectile dysfunction (ED) medications or testosterone replacement […]