Opioid Prescription Practices in Hand Surgery

Curbing prescription opioid dependency

Improving opioid prescription practices and reducing patient risk in the primary care setting

Chronic pain is complex, and the patient suffering from chronic pain frequently experiences concomitant medical and psychiatric disorders, including mood and anxiety disorders, and in some cases substance use disorders. Ideally these patients would be referred to an interdisciplinary pain program staffed by pain medicine, behavioral health, and addiction specialists. In practice, the majority o...

Tuberculosis Prescription Practices In India

Introduction: India has the highest burden of tuberculosis in world, accounting for 20% of global incidence of TB (Tuberculosis). TB treatment is available both in private and public sector in India. Aim & objectives: The current study was carried out to study and compare the prescribing practices of antituberculosis medications by private practitioners and healthcare providers in public sector...

Balance in opioid prescription during pregnancy.

1063 May 2014 I N this issue of ANesthesiology, Bateman et al.1 present an analysis of opioid prescription practices from a large U.s. private insurance database. The information derived from the database “inVision” for Data Mart is constructed from medical and prescription information from privately insured people in the United states. The authors identified a surprisingly high incidence of op...

Examining Brain Networks in Prescription Opioid Users

Prescription opioid dependence has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and internationally [1]. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have increased significantly since 1999; indeed from 1999 to 2015, more than 183,000 people have died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioids [2,3]. It is well known that drug addiction is a disease of the brain [4] and thus, ther...