Is It Wrong to Ask Your Doctor for Opioids?February 23, 2018 |
Our Travis Rieder argues that, yes, America probably needs a culture change regarding pain medicine, but we have to be careful how we frame that challenge.
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Doctors at some of the country’s largest hospital chains admit they went overboard with opioids to make people as pain-free as possible
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America Experiences More Pain Than Other CountriesDecember 20, 2017 |
A third of Americans have pain “often” or “very often”—here’s why
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Scientists Figure Out Why Italian Family Can’t Feel PainDecember 14, 2017 |
An Italian woman, her two daughters, and her three grandchildren have always had trouble feeling pain. They can’t sense temperature. They break bones without noticing. Now, a team of scientists in the United Kingdom think they’ve figured out why
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No, Most People Aren’t In Severe Pain When They DieDecember 12, 2017 |
Many people fear death partly because of the perception they might suffer increasing pain and other awful symptoms the nearer it gets. There’s often the belief palliative care may not alleviate such pain, leaving many people to die excruciating deaths
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‘Opiophobia’ Has Left Africa in AgonyDecember 7, 2017 |
Uganda has a strategy for giving scarce morphine to patients in pain. But many poor nations won’t emulate it, over fear of an opioid epidemic
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Surgical Patients May Be Feeling Pain—and (Mostly) Forgetting ItDecember 5, 2017 |
Amnesic anesthetics are convenient and help patients make a faster recovery, but they don’t necessarily prevent suffering during surgery
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Getting Doctors To Stop Prescribing Codeine To Kids Has Taken YearsNovember 16, 2017 |
For years the Food and Drug Administration has been trying to get doctors to quit prescribing codeine, an opioid painkiller, to children after getting their tonsils or adenoids out
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