Ohio Workers’ Comp Moving Away from Opioids and Surgery
The Bureau of Workmans’ Compensation board in Ohio has approved a rule that discourages surgery and opioid use in favor of more conservative forms of therapy for lower back injuries. In [...]
US Opioid Policies Need a Major Overhaul, says NASEM
A panel from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is urging the regulators to change policies on opioids in the United States. The panel wants to see the FDA give more [...]
Extreme Opioid Use and Doctor Shopping Plague Medicare
The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released a report on painkiller abuse amongst medicare patients. The Inspector General found that heavy use and [...]
Beshear: Opioid Painkiller Being Pulled by Pharmaceutical Company ‘First Step’ in Fighting Epidemic
FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 7, 2017) – In 2015, more than 225 Kentuckians died from a drug overdose with Opana in their blood. Now that the makers of the opioid painkiller announced July 6 that it will [...]
Opioid Legal Battle: Palm Beach County Considering Suing Drug Companies
Another county has joined the growing list of states, counties, and cities filing lawsuits against drug manufacturers over the opioid epidemic. Palm Beach County (Florida) received over 5,000 [...]
Surgeons Ditching Opioids in Operating Room
Surgeons across the country are now implementing techniques that minimize the use of highly addictive painkillers that have led to the opioid crisis we currently face. Doctors are turning to [...]
