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The blog, penned by Brian J. Chadwick, isupdated every week, addresses a broad range of opioid-related issues, including the intersection of opioid use and over-use and COVID-19.
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The below statement on #prescriptionpainmedicine is fairly standard on the major providers' websites. The problem is that new approaches to #painmanagement, including living with some degree of #chronicpain, albeit a more realistic approach, cannot successfully be thrust on the #20millionAmericans with #severechronicpain, many using #opioidmedications for years. Numbers 1-4 below are just not nearly as effective at severe acute or chronic pain management as is number 5. This is primarily on #CDC2018Guidelines for prescribing opioids – a big pendulum swing – clinicians, pharmacists and payors bought in. CDC should have had more foresight. And new CDC guidelines are too little too late.READ MORE
A weekly series of short articles written exclusively for 100 Million Ways by Linda Strause, PhD, who specializes in drug dependence and addiction. Linda will be joined by guest contributors.
In Terry Gilliam’s epic fantasy (and epic box-office failure) “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (1988), Vulcan, God of the Underworld, explains the alleged “virtues” of non-combat, long-distance warfare to the Baron, his eight-year-old compatriot, Sally Salt, and the Baron’s long-time, long-suffering friend/servant, Berthold. The dialogue appears in its entirety, thanks to IMDB’s movie quote section here:
Baron Munchausen: What's this?
Vulcan: Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.Baron Munchausen: Ah! What does it do?Vulcan: Do? Kills the enemy.Baron Munchausen: All the enemy?Vulcan: Aye, all of them. All their wives, and all their children, and all their sheep, and all their cattle, and all their cats and dogs. All of them. All of them gone for good.Sally: That's horrible. READ MORE
Vulcan: Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.Baron Munchausen: Ah! What does it do?Vulcan: Do? Kills the enemy.Baron Munchausen: All the enemy?Vulcan: Aye, all of them. All their wives, and all their children, and all their sheep, and all their cattle, and all their cats and dogs. All of them. All of them gone for good.Sally: That's horrible. READ MORE
Recent Blogs
New data from the VA Boston Healthcare System indicates, "Veterans who had a bad experience during their military service don't like to go into a VA facility – too many bad memories - too many triggers”. The VA plans to extend its telemental and telemedicine services programs. READ MORE
New data from the VA Boston Healthcare System indicates, "Veterans who had a bad experience during their military service don't like to go into a VA facility – too many bad memories - too many triggers”. The VA plans to extend its telemental and telemedicine services programs. READ MORE
Those experiencing #chronicpain often deal with #stigma, perpetrated, sometimes unconsciously, by family, friends, medical professionals and social mores. Chronic pain is a subjective experience. Those around people with chronic pain can become weary from the experience, especially for undiagnosed pain, or drug dependent pain, when lots of people are experiencing “real pain.” READ MORE
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"Droning On and On:
The Price of Detached Warfare"by Gabe Nathan
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GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS SUICIDE GUNS
by Gabe NathanREAD MORE
Suicide Risk in the Veterans’ Population
Linda Strause, PhDREAD MORE
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Blog #83: Caregiving Can Suck
Blog #82 If You Find Your JoyBlog #81 - Six Actions to Solve the Opioid CrisisBlog 80 – The Opioid Crisis Can Be FixedBlog 79 – Programs to Make a DifferenceBlog #78: Locking Out the Pain Patient is no SolutionBlog #77: Mental Health Is HealthBlog 76 – Good Things Are Happening Blog 75 – PTSD - a Similar Mission Blog #74 International Overdose Awareness DayBlog #73 – Patience, Persistence, and OptimismBlog #72 – Opioid Use and C-19 VaccinationsBlog #71 The Complex Supply SideBlog # 70 – Big – But Not Likely Big Enough – YetBlog #69 : When Patients Ask...Blog #68 – Three WavesBlog #67 Peer Mentorship – The First Commitment: Don't Die!
Blog #66: Opioids WorkBlog #65 I Feel So Disorganized
Blog #64 Overdose Deaths in 2020, Mental Health, What is Being DoneBlog #63 - A Conversation with a Junki Blog #62 There's No Maybe About ItBlog #61 "Caring for Caregivers:" Blog #60 "I am abusing opioids; I have a mental illness, and I’m fat."#60 "I am abusing opioids; I have a mental illness, oh yeah, and I’m fat." Blog #59 The ODC "Odyssey" RegistryBlog #58: Jail-HellBlog #57: Mental Illness and OpioidsBlog #56 RatsBlog #55 - Who’s Caring for the Caregiver?Blog #54 An Imperfect Solution:Not dying is also a good aspirationBlog #53 – Double TroubleBlog #52 – Ravaged FamiliesBlog #51 - Our "Provocative" SurveysBlog #50 "It Takes a Web Community"Blog #49 The Opioid TaxBlog #48 Peer-to-Peer Online CommunitiesBlog #47 A Junkie’s New Year Resolutions
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