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Study: Readmission Within the First Day of Discharge Is Painful: Experience From an Australian General Surgical Service
Interesting study, on readmission to hospital within one day of discharge from a general surgical service, in Australia. And the most common reason for readmission?...
Can you “unlearn” back pain? Not if your back pain is not a learned response!
DRAFT…fix this rant with proper info Can you ‘unlearn’ back pain? Yes…IF your back pain is a learned response. That is, if you have ‘learned’...
Study: Patterns of opioid dispensing and associated wage replacement duration in workers with accepted claims for low back pain: a retrospective cohort study
It has been a while since I’ve had the pleasure of writing up a scientific study on chronic pain. Not because I believe that there...
Why are people who live with severe, daily chronic pain not included in the conversation around pain management?
The title says it all. Why are those people who are living with daily, severe pain excluded from the conversation around pain management? Why are...
Study: Opioid tapering in chronic pain patients is associated with increased overdose and mental health crisis extending for up to two years
Researchers have found that tapering chronic pain patients off their opioid pain medications may be far more dangerous than continuing opioid therapy. This runs counter...
Study: Initial opioid prescription patterns and the risk of ongoing use and adverse outcomes
This is a very large study with 2,021,371 participants. It looked at patients who were prescribed an opioid for pain and examined how many people...
Study: Opioid-related overdose and chronic use following an initial prescription of hydrocodone versus oxycodone
Opioid overdose in the chronic pain community is vanishingly rare, as is addction
Response to “Recommendations and guidance for opioid prescription“
Norman Swan – The health report podcast on ABC – interviewing Dr Chris Hayes, Pain Medicine Specialist “Last week the Australian Commission on Safety and...
Misinterpretation of the “Overdose Crisis” Continues to Fuel Misunderstanding of the Role of Prescription Opioids
The study demonstrates that most overdoses are due to polypharmacy, not due to opioids alone and the numbers of ‘opioid’ induced deaths are inflated by...
Study: Are Prescription Opioids Driving the Opioid Crisis? Assumptions vs Facts
Many current assumptions about opioid analgesics are ill-founded. Illicit fentanyl and heroin, not opioid prescribing, now fuel the current opioid overdose epidemic. National discussion has...