ALLMedicine™ Opioid Abuse Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is currently regarded as an effective treatment for knee osteoarthritis, relieving patients' pain and significantly enhancing their quality of life and activity levels, allowing them to return to work and daily life a...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is common. The point prevalence of low back pain in the US is about 25%, and the majority of Americans will have at least one episode of low back pain in their lifetimes. Approximately 50% of all US Veterans have chron...

Mar 9th, 2023 - The overall project goals are to determine oxytocin effects on oxycodone's subject-rated abuse liability, and experimental pain. Generally healthy individuals (determined via medical history review and a screening session) will, after informed con...

Feb 21st, 2023 - Opioid abuse and misuse remain a public health crisis in the United States, notably in patients with chronic pain from degenerative spine disease. Perioperative pain management for patients undergoing spinal surgery remains largely reliant on opio...

Feb 17th, 2023 - Controversy surrounding the use of opioids for the treatment and the unique characteristics of chronic pain heighten the risks for abuse and dependence; however, it's unclear if higher doses of opioids and first exposure are associated with depend...

Feb 23rd, 2017 - Opioid use, abuse, and adverse consequences, including death, have escalated at an alarming rate since the 1990s. In an attempt to control opioid abuse, numerous regulations and guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing have been developed by ...

Jul 20th, 2012 - Part 2 of the guidelines on responsible opioid prescribing provides the following recommendations for initiating and maintaining chronic opioid therapy of 90 days or longer. 1. A) Comprehensive assessment and documentation is recommended before in...

Feb 4th, 2009 - Use of chronic opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain has increased substantially. The American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine commissioned a systematic review of the evidence on chronic opioid therapy for chronic noncan...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is common. The point prevalence of low back pain in the US is about 25%, and the majority of Americans will have at least one episode of low back pain in their lifetimes. Approximately 50% of all US Veterans have chron...

Mar 9th, 2023 - The overall project goals are to determine oxytocin effects on oxycodone's subject-rated abuse liability, and experimental pain. Generally healthy individuals (determined via medical history review and a screening session) will, after informed con...

Feb 21st, 2023 - Opioid abuse and misuse remain a public health crisis in the United States, notably in patients with chronic pain from degenerative spine disease. Perioperative pain management for patients undergoing spinal surgery remains largely reliant on opio...

Feb 8th, 2023 - Acute post-surgical pain remains commonly treated with opioids. Although such treatments are efficacious, they can lead to opioid dependency. Disturbingly, opioid abuse often began as a direct consequence of prescription medications, primarily for...

Jan 30th, 2023 - 1.0 BACKGROUND, RATIONALE Since the turn of the century, opioid prescriptions and opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States has been on the rise, and is seen as the main cause of the consecutive decrease in life expectancy seen in 2015-2...

Dec 8th, 2022 - Guidelines for prescribing opioids for adults with acute and chronic pain were published in November 2022 by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).[1,2] Initiating opioids for p...

Nov 18th, 2022 - You might not think COVID and substance abuse go hand in hand but you'd be mistaken. It seems substance abuse, and particularly opioid usage, is on the rise among physicians since the COVID pandemic hit in March 2020. Medscape's Substance and Opio...

Nov 8th, 2022 - As a physician in the heart of the opioid epidemic, Pavirthra R. Ellison, MD, has watched for years as her patients have lost parents to overdoses. More than 1400 adults in West Virginia, where she practices, died of opioid abuse in 2021 alone, go...

Nov 1st, 2022 - Doctors Split on Effect of Race on Care Doctors differed sharply on the effect of race on the quality of patient care, a recent Medscape survey found. Doctors ranked racial disparity third in importance among 10 social issues affecting healthcare,...

Oct 31st, 2022 - The American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Ethics urges physicians to "advocate for social, economic, educational, and political changes that ameliorate suffering and contribute to human well-being." But how achievable is that level of physici...