Dr. Raouf just can’t get enough pain! Thank you for sharing your insight as a full fledged PharmD. Here’s what…
Common Sense & the Plight of Topical NSAIDs
Common Sense – Common Cents – Common Scents I go with #3 because something just doesn’t smell right. Now we…
One Size Opioid Dose Does Not Fit All
…and there is good reason for this. To believe otherwise is indeed credulous. Although I will introduce scientific reasons to…
Mythbusters: Hydrocodone is NOT a ProDrug!
Many urban myths have surfaced of late, perhaps as a result of the newfound interest among politicians professing to be…
Serum Opioid Monitoring; where’s the evidence?
There is no shortage of guidelines for opioid use in chronic noncancer pain.1-4 All of them advocate in some form…
Is there Maximum Daily Morphine Equivalent?
Converting to daily morphine equivalents is not elementary. Inaccurate opioid conversions can place patients at increased risk of underdose or…
Neuropathic Cancer Pain Treatment & Related Drug Interactions
Dr. Josephine Sasu-Tenkoramaa collaboratively with Dr. Jeffrey Fudin The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 3-Step Analgesic Ladder adopted in the 1980’s…
Morphine Serum Levels – How the Numbers Add Up
Guest Blogger: Cory Villanueva, Pharm.D. Candidate 2013, under the mentorship of Dr. Jeffrey Fudin. . Guest posts by Resident and Intern Pharmacists…
The Path to Publication in Healthcare
Having an article published is a great honor; it is an acknowledgement that your ideas and proposals are justified enough…
Methadone – The Good, the Bad, the Practical
Jennifer Schneider M.D. For many years I was an internist, addiction medicine doc, and specialist in medication management for chronic…