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High Opioid Prescription Rates Seen in Emergency Department-Treated Gout

November 2, 2020 • By Kurt Ullman

Acute gout can be very painful, causing patients to seek treatment in the emergency department. A retrospective study of pain interventions for gout in Rhode  Island found that nearly 30% of patients received prescriptions for opioid medications over 30 months. Of these prescriptions, over 80% were for patients who had never been exposed to opioids… [Read More]

Filed Under: Analgesics, Conditions, Crystal Arthritis Tagged With: Gout, Gout Resource Center, opioid crisis

Increasing Opioid Dose May Not Help Chronic Pain

February 19, 2020 • By David Douglas

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—In patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, an increase in opioid dosage appears to be of no clear benefit, according to a two-year study. As Benjamin J. Morasco, PhD, tells Reuters Health by email, “When we followed patients with chronic pain, who were already prescribed long-term opioid therapy, we found patients as a… [Read More]

Filed Under: Analgesics, Drug Updates

How to Address Opioid Abuse with Patients

December 2, 2019 • By Carina Stanton

More than half of regular opioid users suffer from arthritis. Here are three tips to talk to your patients about opioid use and alternative pain management…... [Read More]

Filed Under: Drug Updates, Safety Tagged With: Opioid abuse, opioid alternatives, Pain Management, patient communication, physician-patient communication

Are Opioid Contracts Helpful or Harmful?

October 18, 2019 • By Steven M. Harris, Esq.

The opioid epidemic in the U.S. has destroyed thousands of lives and torn families apart. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an average of 130 people in the U.S. die each day from an opioid overdose. From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 died as a result of drug overdoses. In 2017,… [Read More]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: opioid contracts, opioid crisis, physician patient relationship

How to Improve Opioid Prescribing in an Outpatient Clinic

October 18, 2019 • By Lisa Carnago, FNP, Jenelle Hall, PharmD, & Stephanie Puryear, RMA

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More than 72,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2017, according to the National Institutes of Health.1 The impact of the opioid epidemic has affected many levels of patient care and, as a result, healthcare systems are responding to escalating death rates, new legislation and the possibility of compromised patient safety in a multitude of… [Read More]

Filed Under: Practice Management, Safety Tagged With: Chronic pain, opioid crisis, prescribing

Study Finds Chronic Opioid Use Doubled in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

September 17, 2019 • By Mary Beth Nierengarten

The prevalence of chronic opioid use among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) doubled between 2002 and 2015, especially among patients with severe pain or on antidepressants, according to a new study.1 The study adds to prior data reporting trends in chronic opioid use in RA patients.2,3 Severe pain was the strongest predictor for use of… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Research Reviews, Rheumatoid Arthritis Tagged With: opioid crisis, Pain Management, RA Resource Center

Opioids Commonly Prescribed for Gout Attacks

July 9, 2019 • By Reuters Staff

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Nearly three in 10 patients seeking care at the emergency department (ED) for acute gout will be discharged with a prescription for opioids, new research shows. “Our study suggests a high use of prescription opioid in patients discharged from the ED with a diagnosis of gout, a condition that can be managed… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Crystal Arthritis Tagged With: Arthritis Care & Research, Emergency Department, Gout, opioid, Pain, Pain Management

Chronic Opioid Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Prevalence & Predictors

May 1, 2019 • By Arthritis & Rheumatology

Over the past decade, physicians, patients and policy makers have expressed increasing concern about the high frequency of opioids being prescribed and the association between opioid use and poor outcomes. Rates of opioid prescriptions in the general population rose considerably from the 1990s through 2010, with a plateau in the early 2010s. In 2015, 38%… [Read More]

Filed Under: Analgesics, Drug Updates Tagged With: Arthritis & Rheumatology, Chronic pain, Opioids, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Clinicians’ Use of ‘Safer’ Opioid-Prescribing Practices Spotty

March 5, 2019 • By Anne Harding

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Many U.S. clinicians aren’t following risk-mitigation practices for opioid prescribing, new findings show. “In response to this national opioid crisis, consensus-based safer opioid prescribing guidelines have been published and state laws regulating opioid prescribing practices have been enacted,” Daniel P. Alford, MD, of Boston University School of Medicine, and colleagues write in… [Read More]

Filed Under: Analgesics, Drug Updates Tagged With: opioid, Opioid abuse, opioid crisis, prescribing

FDA Update: Priority Review for Non-Opioid Treatment & New Warning for Fluoroquinolones

January 23, 2019 • By Michele B. Kaufman, PharmD, BCGP

The FDA has granted priority review to a non-opioid, postoperative pain treatment, HTX-011…... [Read More]

Filed Under: Analgesics, Drug Updates, Safety Tagged With: bupivacaine, FDA, fluoroquinolones, HTX-011, meloxicam, safety warning, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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