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Antidepressants treat pain? Do antidepressants make you happy?
Blog, Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, Therapeutics & Dosing

Antidepressants are not “Happy Pills”

September 17, 2012May 16, 2023 / PainDr / 10 Comments on Antidepressants are not “Happy Pills”

Certain antidepressants can be extremely efficacious for certain pain disorders, most are good for depression, but none of them are…

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Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, Methadone, Opioids, Therapeutics & Dosing

Methadone Dose Conversion Unscrambled

September 12, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 632 Comments on Methadone Dose Conversion Unscrambled

WARNING: Methadone should only be prescribed for pain by experienced clinicians! Indubitably, the most difficult opioid conversion challenge to prescribers…

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Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, Opioids, Therapeutics & Dosing

Long Weekend, Just Two “Tablets” Left, and No Refills

August 31, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 4 Comments on 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…

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Opioids, Therapeutics & Dosing

Tapentadol; A Unique & Rational Opioid Option for Neuropathic Pain

August 30, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 17 Comments on 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…

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Blog, Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, PROMPT (Professionals for Rational Opioid Monitoring & PharmacoTherapy)

PROMPT to PROP; The Ball’s in Your Court

August 24, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 7 Comments on 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. …

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Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, PROMPT (Professionals for Rational Opioid Monitoring & PharmacoTherapy)

Chronic Opioid Patients Speak Out Against PROP

August 20, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 1,143 Comments on 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…

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Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, Opioids & Politics, PROMPT (Professionals for Rational Opioid Monitoring & PharmacoTherapy)

PROMPT Members Speak Out

August 18, 2012October 23, 2015 / PainDr / 14 Comments on PROMPT Members Speak Out

It was quite an interesting bittersweet 2 weeks since the launch of PROMPT.  I reconnected with many esteemed colleagues from…

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Blog, PROMPT (Professionals for Rational Opioid Monitoring & PharmacoTherapy)

PROMPT

August 15, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 2 Comments on PROMPT

Professionals for Rational Opioid Monitoring & Pharmaco-Therapeutics (PROMPT) is a multidisciplinary group comprised of many pain clinicians nationwide.  PROMPT members…

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Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, Opioids & Politics, PROMPT (Professionals for Rational Opioid Monitoring & PharmacoTherapy), Therapeutics & Dosing

We Intend to be PROMPT with a Challenge to PROP FDA Letter

August 9, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 27 Comments on 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…

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Blog, Dr. Jeffrey Fudin Posts, Opioids & Politics, PROMPT (Professionals for Rational Opioid Monitoring & PharmacoTherapy)

Label Changes for Opioids, FOR or AGAINST

August 3, 2012May 15, 2023 / PainDr / 46 Comments on 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…

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