opioid epidemic
What Opioid Crisis? Not My Job
Postoperative pain management in 2025 remains solidly rooted in opioid-dependent regimens, despite the availability ...
JUNE 5, 2025
Preventing Opioid Overdose with Naloxone
The REVIVEme initiative was designed to educate the public in the identification of opioid overdose and the use of ...
JANUARY 26, 2023
Laws to Restrict Delayed Post-op Opioid Dispensing Could Help Stop Misuse
Delayed filling of opioid prescriptions written by surgeons and dentists suggests opioid medications are not being ...
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Could an Opioid Ecosystem Model Help End the Opioid Crisis?
An innovative "opioid ecosystem" concept could play a key role in helping to end the opioid crisis by eschewing ...
JANUARY 28, 2022
Most Opioid Use Disorder Programs Don't Manage Chronic Pain
Although chronic pain is a major comorbid condition for people with opioid use disorder, pain is not managed by ...
JULY 20, 2021
Research Highlights Need for Better Educational Materials for Pain Patients
Better methods to educate pain patients about their treatment could boost outcomes and reduce long-term opioid ...
MAY 12, 2021
Benefits of Enhanced Recovery Practices in Regional Anesthesia
During the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), we had a chance to talk with ...
JANUARY 30, 2019
Surgeons Tackling Opioid Misuse Problem
Every surgeon in the United States should play a role in reducing the number of opioids funneled to the public.
JANUARY 25, 2019
President Signs Opioid Abuse SUPPORT Bill Into Law
President Donald Trump has signed H.R. 6 into law, in an effort to help public health officials and providers ...
OCTOBER 29, 2018
‘You Have to Put Some Value on Human Life’: Naloxone White Paper Under Fire
The incendiary response from the medical community to the working white paper written by two economists on the ...
JULY 9, 2018
Surgeon General’s Advisory Emphasizes Importance of Naloxone Amid Opioid Crisis
Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, in a public health advisory, recommended that more people, such as family ...
APRIL 6, 2018
Hospital ED Does Its Part to Tackle Opioid Crisis
Orlando, Fla.—Taking on the opioid epidemic is no easy task, but one institution showed that its new ...
JANUARY 29, 2018
