opioids
FDA Updates Opioid Labeling Requirements to Reflect Long-Term Risks
The FDA announced major changes to its opioid pain medication labeling regulations that better emphasize and ...
AUGUST 7, 2025
NFL Tackles Pain Without Widespread Opioid Use
The National Football League and NFL Players Association have implemented a prescription drug monitoring program to ...
MAY 13, 2025
Top TOC Challenges: Anticoagulants, Diabetes Rx and Opioids
Whether from inpatient to outpatient, outpatient to inpatient, or between higher and lower-acuity settings within ...
MARCH 18, 2025
Decreasing Postoperative Adverse Events and Waste Costs With Low-Dose Opioid And Ready-to-Administer (RTA) Medications
This Special Report reviews data evaluating the association of adverse outcomes and intraoperative opioid dose; ...
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Despite Risks and Scant Evidence, Muscle Relaxants Still Used to Treat Chronic Pain
The CDC has guidelines recommending that clinicians avoid using opioids to manage chronic noncancer pain.
JANUARY 14, 2025
NOPAIN Act to Embrace Seniors in Medicare Part D Reimbursement for Nonopioid Alternatives
The NOPAIN Act is a big legislative win for the pain medicine profession in Washington, but it already ...
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Risky Behavior, Unique Wounds Seen With Xylazine Exposure
Data from a survey conducted in August 2023 at three syringe service programs in Massachusetts found that exposure ...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
How Does Opioid Therapy Affect Quality of Life in Minority Chronic Pain Patients?
Black patients with chronic pain demonstrate a heightened likelihood of experiencing improved quality of life from ...
MAY 22, 2024
Does Sex Affect Response to Ketamine?
Data from an animal study indicate that opioid receptor antagonists are effective at curtailing the effects of ...
APRIL 16, 2024
New EPIC Tool Facilitates ED Care for OUD
A new clinical decision support tool available in Epic helps ED clinicians identify potential patients with OUD, ...
MARCH 13, 2024
Decreased Opioid Prescribing Not a Silver Bullet for Reducing Overdose Deaths
Opioid prescribing has fallen by nearly 50% over the past 10 years, but opioid-related overdose deaths continue to ...
MARCH 6, 2024
NOPAIN Act Passage Leaves Pain Care Primed for Big Legislative Year in 2024
Now that the 118th Session of the U.S. Congress has drawn to a close, the action begun on the pain care front ...
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
