A Few Things to Keep an Eye On
[ed note: Michael Jorrin, aka “Doc Gumshoe,” is a medical writer (not a doctor) who shares his thoughts with us once or twice a month. As with all our guest authors, his words and opinions are his own] The stream – or should I say “torrent” – of medical and health-care related news doesn’t seem […]
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My wife has been on hydrocodone and methadone for years due to severe arthritic back pain. Three times a day for each on...
Well, let me be the judge of my own pain. Most doctors don't feel my pain, in fact, none of them do. But I can agree ...
Rick raises here an incredibly important point which I think bears emphasis. Which is that in true addiction, the patien...
$BDSI long, DR KSS, BioDelivery Sciences describes buprenorphine as a differentiated opioid because it is a partial agon...
The bup implant has just failed to catch on. The concerns I have and that others share on the forum I frequent include ...
Ahhh yes the WHOLLY POSITIVE ROS. I too ask them if their teeth itch!!! ha ha ha ha. Yep ,those were cumbersome. Now...
Hi David: It's about 20 percent less respiratory suppressive for a given degree of analgesia than morphine. Addictivenes...
As a sufferer of chronic back pain for the last 19 years, I was watching this video with baited breath, waiting for him ...
In our part of the world, the problem is addiction brought on initially by easy access to oxycontin or whatever pill var...
I once entered the room of a disabled woman with "chronic pain" on heavy prescribed narcotic doses. As I entered, she sa...
Hello, All -- I too can speak from experience since I have had a TKR on both knees: Left on 8/27/13 and right on 4/1/...
RE: Zogenix (ZGNX) Seeing a lot of hype / discussion around Zogenix lately. Zohydro will have some competition soon w...
Federal health regulators on Thursday approved the first hard-to-abuse version of the painkiller hydrocodone, offering a...
Making hydrocodone schedule II is a good idea, but I don't think much will change really. Kind of as we learned from the...
Vicki: That's extraordinary. And quite criminal on the part of the relative supplying her. One thing to keep in mind is ...
Dr. KSS, Two weeks ago I placed my 80-year old mother in a geriatric rehab facility after learning she has been abusing...
Thanks James. I will definitely get more deeply into marijuana in the second or third part of the column. But the bottom...
Thomas: we have gone into that one quite a bit, CVM. Its drug Multikine, about which literally nothing is known, has bee...
QRXPY is wafting as, maybe, a proxy for the Zohydro fight. Zohydro is a hydrocodone formulation without abuse deterrence...
A much-watched event has happened: M Hamburg of the FDA has refused to entertain any demands that the agency revoke its ...