Pain Management

Programs that provide ongoing support to patients with painful conditions and complex medication regimens may also help them avoid using opioid pain medications or reduce the amount that they use, according to a study published in Rheumatology and Therapy.

Finding the right medication or drug combination for individual patients is critical.

The percentage of patients who received an opioid among all ED visits during the 2018 shortage fell significantly from 11.5% pre-shortage to 8.5% during, and did not return to baseline once the shortage had ended.

Overdose rates were two and a half times higher among patients who filled an opioid prescription following a dental procedure.

Twenty percent of the pharmacies contacted indicated they would not dispense buprenorphine, with independent pharmacies and those in southern US states found significantly more likely to restrict the drug.

Study finds that cannabidiol (CBD) and expectancies for receiving CBD do not appear to reduce experimental pain intensity but do make the pain feel less unpleasant.

This is the first systematic literature review on the association of back pain and mortality.

Errors related to extended-release opioids and COVID-19 vaccines warrant attention and should be a priority.

Increased expansion and availability of naloxone may prove to be a monumental aspect of the public health response to the opioid crisis.

The FDA has approved the submission of a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) that expands the use of bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension to include patients aged 6 years and older for single-dose infiltration as a postsurgical local analgesia.

The study results reiterate the importance of interventions to lower prescribing rates of potentially inappropriate drugs among older adults.

Preliminary research by the American Heart Association suggests the opioid epidemic in the United States may have led to an increase in the number of strokes due to bacterial infections of the heart (infective endocarditis).

Pharmacy's History: German chemist Felix Hoffmann worked on the substances at Bayer during a 2-Week period in 1897.

Investigators found an average difference of 12% in the range of fracture-associated drug prescribing when comparing hospital referral regions.

This activity is supported by an independent medical education grant from AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Health system employee’s dismissal is based on medicinal use of marijuana under 2016 law.

The study is the first of its kind to focus on the effect of cannabis on blood pressure, heart rate, and metabolic parameters in adults 60 years of age and older with hypertension.

Opioid overdoses are increasing, and pharmacists can play an integral role in prevention.

The drug is a novel, nonopioid, sustained-release local analgesic indicated for use as postsurgical analgesia for up to 72 hours.

When conducting a cesarean delivery, the use of a wound infusion pump in combination with enhanced recovery efforts was found to reduce opioid use by more than 80%.

This activity is supported by an independent medical education grant from AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

This activity is supported by an independent medical education grant from AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Participants with severe withdrawal symptoms were more likely to be younger, longtime and frequent users of cannabis, and to have worse mental health.

Cannabis use and cannabinoids influence various immune disorders and treatments, mostly via CB2 regulation, according to a virtual session at the at the ASHP 2020 Midyear meeting.

According to research conducted at Rush University Medical Center, opioid use may increase patients’ risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

A pilot study published today in Addiction found that a collaborative approach to treating opioid use disorder that relies heavily on community pharmacists is feasible and may increase adherence and participant satisfaction.

Decreases in prescription opioid volume over the past 9 years have been driven by changes in clinical use, regulatory, and reimbursement policies, and in progressively more restrictive legislation enacted since 2012.

Monitoring outpatient prescribing patterns has been a major challenge for the Lifespan health system in Rhode Island, since it has over 1.5 million electronic prescriptions written annually.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has compounded the opioid crisis.

The FDA-approved generic is therapeutically equivalent to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals’ acetaminophen injection product (Ofirmev).