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There has been speculation that something about people from the UK makes them especially vulnerable to agranulocytosis.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 5, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
There has been speculation that something about people from the UK makes them especially vulnerable to agranulocytosis.
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 18, 2023 | Treatment | 0 |
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 27, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 9, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
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.
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 | Feb 6, 2020 | Programs, Treatment | 0 |
Of more than 9000 Veterans Administration patients, only one-quarter rated their pain control with opioids as excellent or very good.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 19, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Ethics never comes up. The job is to push product, and once sold, “we wash our hands of the whole thing.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 24, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
We shouldn’t ignore the emotional factors involved in chronic pain– such as anxiety and depression.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 28, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
…optimally, the goal isn’t just to get different specialists to work together, it’s to educate all practitioners to address the patient with awareness of both perspectives.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 18, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 1 |
In the past, we’ve flung opioids at the problem, and haven’t developed alternatives.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 27, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
Not everybody wants to remain dependent on pain medication. But at present, we offer few if any alternatives to doing it on your own.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 13, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
Perhaps more important, the patient could begin to resume a normal life.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 16, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
The goal is to eventually develop an objective scale by which pain can be measured not by self-report, but by neuroimaging.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 5, 2018 | Public Health | 0 |
Based on the vast number of prescriptions for opioid medications written by US practitioners over the past few decades, we’ve become the clear leaders in opioid prescribing.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 29, 2018 | In the News | 0 |
Is that pain evidence of a worsening physical condition or of drug withdrawal?
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