Certain antidepressants can be extremely efficacious for certain pain disorders, most are good for depression, but none of them are…
Methadone Dose Conversion Unscrambled
WARNING: Methadone should only be prescribed for pain by experienced clinicians! Indubitably, the most difficult opioid conversion challenge to prescribers…
Long Weekend, Just Two “Tablets” Left, and No Refills
11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Prescribe Short-Acting Opioids for Chronic Pain! Pain clinicians and scientists worldwide have come to recognize that…
Tapentadol; A Unique & Rational Opioid Option for Neuropathic Pain
Tapentadol (in the form of Nucynta ER®) was FDA approved for diabetic neuropathy pain on August 29, 2012. This is especially…
PROMPT to PROP; The Ball’s in Your Court
PROMPT initially became a concept on August 3, 2012 after I read the July 25, 2012 PROP Petition to the FDA. …
Chronic Opioid Patients Speak Out Against PROP
Share your stories of how chronic opioid use changed your life in a positive or negative way. PROMPT is doing…
PROMPT Members Speak Out
It was quite an interesting bittersweet 2 weeks since the launch of PROMPT. I reconnected with many esteemed colleagues from…
We Intend to be PROMPT with a Challenge to PROP FDA Letter
An effort is underway for a multidisciplinary group of clinicians to respond to the July 25 PROP petition which requests that…
Label Changes for Opioids, FOR or AGAINST
On July 25 2012, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) submitted a petition to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration…