Tag: chronic pain
Improving post-op pain management in Latin America
Globally, poor postoperative pain management is linked to high rates of addiction to prescription drugs and opioid misuse. But a new report suggests that...
Treating chronic pain as mental health and substance use disorders meet
The Columbia University Medical Review recently published a proposal for a new, multi-disciplinary approach to managing the use of opioids to treat chronic pain...
Oregon adopts new opioid prescribing guidelines in an effort to curb...
Oregon’s Opioid Prescribing Guidelines Task Force recently approved the adoption of state-specific opioid prescribing guidelines in order to curb the rate of opioid overdoses...