Emotion regulation and pain catastrophizing influenced pain severity and interference in patients taking opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain.

Opioids were considered inappropriate for chronic pain management owing to concerns about adverse effects, tolerance, dependence and addiction. In the subsequent decades, several circumstances ...

What’s more, the mainstay therapy for severe acute and chronic pain — prescription opioids — has helped fuel an epidemic that kills tens of thousands of people each year. “We have to have ...

As a healthcare writer and patient advocate for nearly 30 years, I’ve witnessed a disturbing trend: doctors are being pushed out of medicine or jailed due to their use of opioid prescriptions ... that ...

duke.edu Background Consequences of prescription opioid use involve harms, addiction, tolerance and death ... reflects only populations with subacute and chronic LBP. Data on reported harms, severe ...

Scott E. Hadland, M.D., M.P.H., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues recommend that acute pain should be treated using a multimodal approach, including appropriate use of ...

The AAP has published its first clinical practice guideline on the use of pediatric opioid prescribing to manage acute pain in children.

Medication is the go-to treatment for pain, while severe chronic pain conditions are often treated with opioids, which bear many side effects and also raise concerns of addiction, misuse and even ...

What you feel may vary depending on your pain tolerance and overall sensitivity ... a pulsing sensation feelings of warmth If you feel severe or sharp pain, you should let your acupuncturist ...

A non-opioid drug for ... with moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee, raising the hope it could become a non-addictive option for patients needing chronic pain relief.

A pilot study showed that a small amount of ketamine can reduce or eliminate the withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting fentanyl.

According to the guidelines, naloxone should be prescribed with every opioid prescription. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published its first clinical practice guideline on the use ...