Hospitals and Healthcare

Opioids are the one of the most prescribed pain-relief for people with low back and neck pain. But new research shows they don’t effectively relieve low back or neck pain and can result in worse pain.

New national standards aim to change doctors’ prescribing habits for hospital patients with pain when they’re discharged home. But clinicians also need to ensure patients’ pain is well managed.

Researchers argue against ongoing use of prescription oxycodone after patients discharged from hospital

A new paper suggests that death certificates dramatically undercounted the number of people dying from opioid overdoses.

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction.

A new study provides good news about opioid prescribing patterns. But some doctors haven't gotten the message.

Experts say opioids are sometimes warranted for kids, in cases like severe burns or major trauma. But doctors should prescribe carefully, and parents should never keep leftovers in the house.

It’s one of the biggest, most expensive American health crises in memory. But the field of addiction medicine is fairly new.

As more cases turn up, doctors are concerned about the extent to which memory loss may be undetected.

Bad press around opioids has resulted in a reluctance to prescribe the drugs, even for terminally ill patients in chronic pain, like me.

Dean Earls was finding it so hard to access treatment for his chronic pain, he left his hometown. Doctors say his situation paints a portrait of what millions of Australians experience trying to get help.

Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.

Some groups are using the drug industry’s playbook to get doctors to think twice about prescribing narcotics.

Anti-addiction medicine can really help, but most emergency care doesn’t include it. That’s starting to change.

Codeine is old hat yet still widely used in the community. We need better informed consumers with better educated and supported GPs and pharmacists

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