Can the new Farm Bill regarding hemp-based products affect Urine Drug Screen Results? Cannabidiol (CBD) is a product that can…
The REAL story of buprenorphine access for pain and addiction to mitigate death risk
In their 3/26/2019 commentary “Want to Reduce Opioid Deaths? Get People the Medications They Need”, a New York Times Editorial…
Response to Oregon’s Tapering Guidance and Tools
We welcome guest blogger Dr. Stephen E. Nadeau, Senior Research Advisor, Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain. Dr. Nadeau…
Happy Holidays or Horrific Hoax?
Happy New Year CMS, Buprenorphine and Tapentadol As many of you already know, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
I decline counseling
As I write this post, I am sitting on a plane, row 26 in Atlanta, Georgia waiting for the aircraft…
Fentanyl; A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, a phrase popularized by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, where…
Stoned (and not in a good way)
Apparently these days, treating pain requires stones, or does it? See what guest blogger Dr. Morty Fein has top say……
If you are forced to stop opioids…
…without a proper assessment and comprehensive civil discussion with your prescriber, it could be very uncomfortable. I recognize that when…
Insurance Companies, Learned Helplessness, and Opioid Deaths
Politicians, media muckrakers, and blood thirsty legal corporations have launched an all-out attack on prescribing clinicians for causing and/or contributing…
Numbskulls, Naloxone, and Nursing Homes
Intro to Apathy As of July 1, 2018, all fire extinguishers will be removed from adult living facilities, assisted living…