Pain Wars
We recognize the important role that depression and anxiety play in determining the patient's experience of pain.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 27, 2022 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
We recognize the important role that depression and anxiety play in determining the patient's experience of pain.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 20, 2022 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 9, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 21, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 17, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
In COVID terms, it’s as contagious as omicron, as fatal as delta. And targeted at the young, making use of their favorite platforms.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 29, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
If so many players were involved, how can drug makers bear primary responsibility? Even if to the layperson’s mind, they richly deserve it.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 22, 2021 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Somehow, experts believe, the brain of the chronic pain patient has “learned” to interpret certain stimuli as a threat, accompanied by danger messages in the form of pain.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 28, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Some genuinely bad news: a larger-than-usual share of the fakes are likely to exceed the two-milligram threshold for a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. As many as two in five, according to DEA.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 25, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
…they’ll argue that since the doctors wrote the prescriptions, there’s no way the pharmacists could be expected to refuse them.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 4, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
Michael K. Williams’ death came years later, but was equally unglamorous. Unintentional, the result of a combination of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and p-fluorofentanyl, an analog most people have never heard of.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 20, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
It’s a strategy we’ve seen employed again and again in recent years – total denial of responsibility as a first line of defense, not the last.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 30, 2021 | Public Health | 0 |
By the way, if you were wondering whether the issue will be co-opted into the ongoing partisan political debate, the answer is: oh, hell yes.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 23, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 1 |
But then I remembered that many in law enforcement had never accepted the opinion of medical experts on the issue.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 22, 2021 | Public Policy | 0 |
“Holy crap! What happened?” the public demands. Followed by “Who’s to blame?” Not us, insist the makers and distributors.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 8, 2021 | Public Policy, Resources | 0 |
The roots of opposition are on an emotional level that doesn’t readily respond to the logic of science. The danger is that the public will be persuaded and take actions that are ultimately not in their own best interests.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 7, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
Instead, they seem to rely on deep pockets, sophisticated lobbying, and battalions of attorneys to absorb the penalties and minimize the damage done to those profits.
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