Long-Acting Pain Drugs No Longer Approved for Treating Moderate Pain

Long-acting Pain Drugs No Longer Approved for Treating Moderate Pain
Each year, 16,000 people die of overdoses that include prescription opioids— and the extended-release and long-acting drugs such as Oxycontin or methadone are disproportionately responsible for such deaths. While currently labeled to treat moderate to …
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Pain Doctor Gives Up License
VanDercar, who operated Tampa Pain Clinic for many years, faced a state Department of Health complaint filed last year that said he over-prescribed several types of painkillers – including oxycodone, valium and methadone – to a patient identified only …
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Hooked on stimulus: Central banks say no thanks to painful addiction cure
Whether it is gambling, alcohol, shopping or drugs, taking away the thing they crave leads to severe withdrawal symptoms, and it is far easier (and more pleasurable) to carry on doing what they know they shouldn't than it is to face the inevitable …
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