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Living with Pain: Physician Abandonment and Suicide in Florida
Last December, Joe Malone came home from work and found his wife, Michelle, dead from an intentional overdose of prescription medicine. She was only 49. “I lost the person I loved most in the whole...
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Youths with Mental Health Problems at Risk of Long-Term Opioid Use
Children and young adults who are given opioid medications for pain are more than twice as likely to become addicted if they have a mental health disorder, according to researchers at the University of...
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Marijuana Spray Proves Effective as Cancer Pain Treatment
Image courtesy of GW Pharmaceuticals A mouth spray containing cannabinoids is effective in reducing pain in cancer patients who are still in pain despite using opioid medicines, according to a new...
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FDA Approves New Opioid for Fast-Track Development
Nektar Therapeutics announced this week that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated the oral opioid analgesic NKTR-181 in a Fast Track development program for the treatment of moderate...
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Genes Play a Role in Opioid Side Effects
Genes play a significant role in determining which patients will suffer from respiratory depression, nausea, itchiness and other side effects from painkilling opiates, according to a Stanford...
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Dramatic Increase in Chronic Abuse of Painkillers
The abuse of prescription painkillers has increased dramatically over the last decade, particularly among men, according to a new report by a researcher for the Centers for Disease Control. Between...
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Should Children Take Opioid Painkillers?
Two new studies are drawing attention to a sensitive topic in the pain community: Should children be given powerful and potentially addictive opioid analgesics to relieve their pain? According to...
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Opioid Use by Injured California Workers Declining
The use of powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone by injured California workers has dropped to its lowest level since 2007, according to a new study. Researchers say the data suggests that...
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Are Painkiller Sales Falling?
Sales of OxyContin and other popular painkillers in the U.S. have declined in the past year, according to pharmaceutical sales data released by a clinical drug website. But it’s not clear if the drop...
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Nektar Begins Phase II Study of New Opioid
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) has enrolled the first patient in a Phase II clinical study of a new opioid analgesic that is designed to enter the brain slowly, reducing the potential for the drug...
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Doctors Petition FDA to Limit Painkillers
Saying it was time to “close the loophole” on narcotic painkillers, a coalition of doctors and public health officials is petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to change the prescription...
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Living with Pain: PROP’s Misleading Petition
Last week the Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, along with a group of doctors and public health officials, sent a petition to the Food and Drug Administration requesting changes in...
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Researcher Says Marijuana is Safer Alternative to Painkillers
Marijuana is an effective treatment for chronic pain and is a safer alternative than opioid analgesics, according to a Canadian researcher at the Centre for Addictions Research at the University of...
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Living with Pain: The Fed Crackdown on Medical Marijuana
I have been smoking medical marijuana for the past four months. Like hundreds of thousands of others, I turned to medical marijuana for relief from chronic pain. For me the decision was easy, as I had...
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Caught in the Crossfire: PROMPT vs. PROP
When a group of doctors, public health officials and members of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) submitted a petition to the FDA to restrict the approved uses of opioid medications,...
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Depression and Painkiller Use Increases Risk of Addiction after Surgery
The risk of addiction to opioid painkillers after surgery significantly increases if a patient is depressed or has used pain medications prior to surgery, according to a pilot study at Stanford...
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Living with Pain: Patients Fight Back in Florida
Pain patients in Florida are taking their well-being into their own hands by fighting back against the state and federal governments, which are obstructing and, in some cases, denying opioid treatment...
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Drug Monitoring Database Significantly Reduced Inappropriate Prescriptions
A prescription drug monitoring program in Canada dramatically reduced the number of inappropriate prescriptions for opioid painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs, according to a new study in the Canadian...
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PROP’s Petition: Why Opioid Labeling Changes Are Needed
By Pete Jackson Recently, several columns have appeared in American News Report expressing negative views toward a petition submitted to the FDA by doctors, researchers and public health officials,...
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Nektar Begins Testing of New Opioid Painkiller
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) has announced positive results from an early study on the effectiveness of a new short-acting opioid drug candidate. The company said the drug – called NKTR-192 –...
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