Rate plateaus as doctors are urged to recommend nondrug pain treatments
The number of Americans abusing prescription painkillers has leveled off in recent years, but there is no apparent decline yet.
That's the finding of a new study tracking the U.S. opioid abuse problem. Researchers found that after a large spike in the early 2000s, Americans' misuse of prescription opioid painkillers has plateaued in recent years.
Physician anesthesiologists are uniquely qualified to understand the opioid epidemic. Hear from Asokumar Buvanendran, M.D., Chair of the ASA Committee on Pain Medicine and learn about upcoming ASA initiatives.
Dr. Sandeep D. Amin discusses a new, non-invasive knee procedure called “cooled radio frequency ablation” (Coolief), that could bring some relief for patients suffering from debilitating chronic pain, for whom surgery is not an option.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) - More than 100 million Americans live with chronic pain every day.
Many of these people take narcotic medications that, while providing relief for some patients, are not always safe and effective and can pose a potential risk for addiction.
A significant group of patients experience something called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or CRPS, often the result of an injury or trauma.
Months before his release, Otto Warmbier, 21, had been sentenced by North Korea to 15 years hard labor for so-called "hostile acts against.” On Tuesday, he was freed and on a plane back to the U.S.
