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PROP joins prominent geneticists and scientists to oppose new OUD risk genetic test

Medical Doctors, Geneticists and Other Experts Call on CMS to Deny Coverage, and FDA to Rescind Approval of Invalid Genetic Test for Opioid Addiction Test Approved by … Continue Reading
PROP and Many Other Advocacy Groups Blast FDA’s Opioid Abuse Surveillance Proposal

Public Citizen, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP), PharmedOut, the National Center for Health Research, and others submitted comments to a docket on … Continue Reading
In Anonymous Sister, Jamie Boyle Uses Family Videos to Tell a True Story of the Opioid Crisis

Jamie Boyle first got the idea for her new documentary Anonymous Sister in 2009. But to fully flesh out the sobering story about the toll that prescription opioids took … Continue Reading
VA releases revised guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic pain

The Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Pain: Synopsis of the 2022 Updated U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense Clinical Practice … Continue Reading
PROP leaders pen book on roots of the opioid epidemic

PROP leaders Dr. Jane Ballantyne and Dr. Mark Sullivan recently released their book on the origins of opioid epidemic and the concept of the right to pain relief … Continue Reading
Opioid Dose Trajectories and Associations With Mortality, Opioid Use Disorder, Continued Opioid Therapy, and Health Plan Disenrollment

In this cohort study, decreasing opioid dose was associated with reduced risk of opioid use disorder and continued opioid therapy but increased risk of disenrollment … Continue Reading
PROP presents at UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs policy

PROP recently presented at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs policy meeting in Vienna, Austria. The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was established by … Continue Reading
PROP News Release: PROP submits response to docket on the CDC opioid prescribing guideline revision

In the 1990s, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and pain doctors endorsed opioids as pain relievers for many common conditions, including chronic pain … Continue Reading
The Untold Story of Purdue Pharma’s Cozy Relationship With the American Medical Association

Critics have long argued that the AMA uses its white-coated prestige as a veneer to advocate on behalf of the medical industry—whose interests are, at times, … Continue Reading
Michigan Medical researchers find that post-surgical opioids could be and should be the exception, not the norm

Published in the Annals of Surgery, researchers found similar patient outcomes from post-surgical patients who were not prescribed opioids and opioid prescribed patients. … Continue Reading

PROP joins prominent geneticists and scientists to oppose new OUD risk genetic test

PROP and Many Other Advocacy Groups Blast FDA’s Opioid Abuse Surveillance Proposal

In Anonymous Sister, Jamie Boyle Uses Family Videos to Tell a True Story of the Opioid Crisis

VA releases revised guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic pain

PROP leaders pen book on roots of the opioid epidemic

Opioid Dose Trajectories and Associations With Mortality, Opioid Use Disorder, Continued Opioid Therapy, and Health Plan Disenrollment

PROP presents at UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs policy

PROP News Release: PROP submits response to docket on the CDC opioid prescribing guideline revision

The Untold Story of Purdue Pharma’s Cozy Relationship With the American Medical Association

Michigan Medical researchers find that post-surgical opioids could be and should be the exception, not the norm

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