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Pain Patients Should Not be the Victims in the War on Drugs
Four years ago, the DEA worked with Dr. Russell K. Portenoy, chairman of the pain medicine department at Beth Israel Medical Center, to develop pain med... Read more »
Expert & Community Posts
3/27/07 Podcast: Rebound - When Our Medications Cause Headaches
By MigraineCast , Health Expert...Vicodin, Percocet, Fioricet. These compound prescription analgesics contain multiple ingredients... Read more »
Vitamin D for Musculoskeletal Pain
By Karen Lee Richards , Health Expert...Better?Don’t expect vitamin D to work quickly like an analgesic. It takes time to correct a... Read more »
Do Not Forget the Risks of Methadone in Pain Management
By Dr. Mark Borigini , Health Expert...but the patient and the health care providers must work together to assure each other that the... Read more »
Tamper Resistant Opioid Medicines
By Will Rowe , Health Expert...Naltrexone basically prevents the morphine, the opioid analgesic, from producing any semblance... Read more »
Chronic Pain Management and the DEA
By Rob Streno , Health Expert...severity and no reaction to abortives or regular analgesics like ibuprofen, and the only way you... Read more »
Health Guide
Medication Overuse Headache Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Rebound?
The name varies. You'll see these headaches called "rebound headaches," "analgesic rebound headaches," "medication overuse headaches," and other terms. The newer term in use by specialists in the... Read more »Migraine Medications: Preventive, Abortive, and Rescue
...Acetaminophen with codeine, oxycodone, or hydrocodone such as Vicodin, Percocet, Tylenol #3 Other analgesics (pain relievers) such as Ultram, Toradol, and others In some cases, doctors will... Read more »Fibromyalgia Medication
...Following are the seven categories of medications most often used to treat fibromyalgia: 1. Analgesics Analgesics are pain killers. They include: Over-the-counter medications... Read more »NHF Survey: Migraine-Specific Medications vs. Nonspecific Medications for Acute Treatment
...antinausea medications such as metoclopramide (Reglan) and noted that caffeine is often an effective analgesic adjunct (helps the analgesic work better). About the Survey This survey was... Read more »Stress: Treatment
...considered.No single method is always successful: A combination of approaches is generally most effective.What works for one person does not necessarily work for someone else.Stress can be... Read more »Images
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