Addiction to medications used properly under doctors’ supervision is known as iatrogenic addiction. In a NEJM Perspective article, PROP leader Dr. Andrew Kolodny sheds … Continue Reading
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
In the 1990s, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and pain doctors endorsed opioids as pain relievers for many common conditions, including chronic pain … Continue Reading
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
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
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