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Narcotic Pain Medication
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October 02, 2008
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Pain Patients Should Not be the Victims in the War on Drugs
By Karen Lee Richards , Health Expert...illegitimate reasons. The guidelines also cautioned narcotics agents not to investigate... Read more »
Opioid Therapy: When Use Becomes Abuse
By Dr. Mark Borigini , Health Expert...time: There is a pervasive abuse of prescription narcotics. Disturbing, because the... Read more »
Lots of Questions – Few Answers
By Karen Lee Richards , Health Expert...arrests of doctors whom allegedly over-prescribed narcotic pain medications. Although the DEA... Read more »
Why Painkillers Don’t Work on Fibromyalgia
By Karen Lee Richards , Health Expert...many fibromyalgia patients complain that even strong narcotic pain medications fail to relieve... Read more »
Do Not Forget the Risks of Methadone in Pain Management
By Dr. Mark Borigini , Health ExpertThe synthetic opioid methadone has been used for many years to treat opioid (commonly, heroin)... Read more »
Health Guide
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
...Migraine abortive medications. Dr. Lipton prefers NSAIDs such as prescription strength naproxen to narcotics, in large part because of the potential for rebound with narcotics. He commented that... Read more »Pain medications
Alternative Names Medications for pain; Drugs for pain; Analgesics Information Pain medications (analgesics) are not all the same. Each pain... Read more »Fecal impaction
...lead to fecal impaction. Patients at risk include those who: Take certain drugs: Any type of narcotic pain medicationMethadone maintenance treatment for drug addictionAnticholinergic... Read more »Primary or idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction
Primary intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a condition that involves symptoms of intestinal blockage without physical evidence of such a blockage. Alternative Names ... Read more »Images
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Pain Relief to go After Surgery
May 05, 2008SALT LAKE CITY (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- At most hospitals across the country, patients who undergo orthopedic surgery are given narcotics to help... Read summary »
Actiq better than other narcotics on breakthrough pain
October 02, 2008A study at the St. Clare Hospice in England has found that Actiq is more effective than other narcotics in controlling breakthrough pain in cancer... Read summary »
Pain medication abuse on the rise with surprising patterns
October 02, 2008Rush University Medical Center researchers have found that the abuse of prescription pain medications (PPMs) is becoming a rapidly growing problem in... Read summary »
Study: New med relieves OA pain as well as oxycodone
October 03, 2008The experimental pain medication tapentadol relieved osteoarthritis (OA) knee pain as well as the narcotic oxycodone in a recent study. The Phase II... Read summary »
Adlea enters new trial for knee-replacement pain
October 03, 2008Drugmaker Anesiva has begun a Phase II trial for Adlea, a pain medication for patients undergoing total knee-replacement surgery. Adlea is a... Read summary »
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