What’s the right painkiller prescription to send home with a patient after gallbladder surgery or a cesarean section?
Category: Pain Medicine
A way around opioids: Target the type of pain for better pain relief
An essential part of treating pain is to first identify what type of pain a person is having and then use a targeted treatment.
How America got hooked on a deadly drug
From 1996 to 2002, Purdue pursued nearly every avenue in the drug supply and prescription sales chain — a strategy now cast as reckless and illegal in more than 1,500 federal civil lawsuits from communities in Florida to Wisconsin to California that allege the drug has fueled a national epidemic of addiction.