Pain Management

Although fentanyl is potent and often deadly, it is not passively absorbed into the bloodstream.

A session presenter at the ASCP 2022 Annual Meeting explained how patients’ mismanagement of medications for headaches can lead to rebound headaches.

Beth Macy, author of New York Times-bestselling book Dopesick and executive producer and writer on the Hulu series “Dopesick,” explains how FDA-approved drugs that treat opioid use disorder still aren’t getting into the hands of patients who need it most.

Researchers suggest that tapering a patient’s opioid medications and allowing them to maintain a health care plan can decrease the risk of developing opioid use disorder among other negative outcomes.

Eliminating paper prescriptions allows for greater legibility, security, trackability for pharmacists and providers.

Male students admitted into a high-performing public charter school found to have better physical health and lower body mass index than their female counterparts.

Dispensing naloxone provides an example of how small changes can make a significant difference.

With a simple intervention, pharmacists came off as compassionate and caring while their efficacy in treating patients improved.

Research suggests cannabis can improve quality of life for patients who suffer from pain and neurological disorders.

Online communities can help opioid users in remission maintain long-lasting sobriety, however the research suggests these communities should be non-drug-related.

Prescription drug monitoring programs have decreased prescription opioids in the United States but resulted in unintended spikes of illegal drug use and heroin-related deaths.

Doan’s magnesium salicylate tetrahydrate formulation treats pain from backaches.

Pharmacists can help by preventing and treating opioid use disorder and overdoses.

Zynrelef is indicated in adults for soft tissue or periarticular instillation to produce postsurgical analgesia for up to 72 hours after foot and ankle, small-to-medium open abdominal, and lower extremity total joint arthroplasty surgical procedures.

Backaid Max offers relief of backaches, leg and joint pain.

With the help of pharmacists and a team of health care providers, a better quality of life is possible for patients with Parkinson disease.

Pharmacists, being one of the most accessible health care professionals, are critical pieces of the opioid tapering program puzzle.

Danish analysis looks at the relationship between the therapy and cardiovascular adverse effects, particularly arrhythmias.

In New York’s medical cannabis program, research showed that patients’ preference around potency differed among users, regardless of their health conditions.

Analysis looks at those with arthritis, chronic pain, headaches, lower back pain, and neuropathic pain between 2012 and 2019.

On the first episode, Jeremy Sasser and Jessica Langley-Loep, from the National Healthcareer Association, discuss pharmacy technician's perceptions of patients who may have opioid use disorder.

Febuxostat) Uloric is a xanthine oxidase inhibitor indicated for the chronic management of hyperuricemia in patients with gout.

ClearoGout aids in the prevention of gout attacks.

Study suggests that health care providers should discuss with patients whether they are using any integrative medicine strategies, which ones, and why.

The suggested wave 4 of the opioid crisis saw high opioid-involved overdose death rates in urban counties and high acceleration of overdose deaths in rural counties, indicating that the opioid crisis worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.