Controlling chronic pain

Article Abstract:

The American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Pain Society have released a consensus statement which includes guidelines for the use and prescribing of opioids in cases of chronic pain. Opioids have long been relegated to peripheral use, stigmatized for their association with a drug-abusing subculture, and physicians prescribing opioids have often faced legal battles and industry scrutiny. Opioids have been proven effective in treating chronic pain, however, and their ability to improve the lives of intractable pain sufferers makes them an invaluable commodity.

Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing, Medicinals and botanicals, Opiates, Usage, Reports, Drug therapy, Opioids, Narcotics, Intractable pain, Bulk drugs, American Pain Society

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R.I. physicians consider suicide support, go neutral

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The Rhode Island Medical Society decided not to endorse physician-assisted suicide, taking instead, a neutral position on the issue. At its May 1996 meeting, the Society became the third state medical society to take a neutral stand following Michigan and Oregon. Two bills are pending in the Rhode Island legislature, one in favor of assisted suicide and one against.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Laws, regulations and rules, Social policy, Assisted suicide, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Medical Society

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