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Parent education improves quick disposal of children’s unused prescription opioids
SAN ANTONIO – Parents were significantly more likely to dispose of their children’s leftover prescription opioids if they had received both...
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Medical cannabis laws appear no longer tied to drop in opioid overdose mortality
"Cannabinoids have demonstrated therapeutic benefits, but reducing population-level opioid overdose mortality does not appear to be among them,"...
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Mindfulness-based stress reduction reduces migraine frequency
SAN ANTONIO – The intervention also led to reductions in anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms and an increase in gray matter volume.
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Opioid prescriptions declined 33% over 5 years
The number of opioid prescriptions decreased 33% nationally from 2013 to 2018, according to the new report from the American Medical Association...
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Pain coping skills training doesn’t improve knee arthroplasty outcomes
TORONTO – A high level of pain catastrophizing prior to scheduled knee arthroplasty is not, as previously thought, a harbinger of poor outcomes....
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When adolescents visit the ED, 10% leave with an opioid
Compared with outpatient clinics, prescription rate is more than six times higher in the emergency department.
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Chronic opioid use linked to low testosterone levels
Hypercortisolism also seen.
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Green light therapy: A stop sign for pain?
MILWAUKEE – Pain scores and opioid use may plummet with the noninvasive therapy.
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Experts discuss what’s new in migraine treatment
PHILADELPHIA – Dr. Alan Rapoport asks Dr. Stewart Tepper to summarize some of
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Arthritis joint pain, inactivity vary greatly across U.S.
The Southeast has the highest rates of adults with severe joint pain and physical inactivity, the CDC reports.