I’ve had a few issues with Australia’s Take Home Naloxone program, most specifically the way it has been marketed. The constant implication is that chronic pain patients on long term opioid therapy are in need of naloxone because they are overdosing left right and centre
This article was shared by Chronic Pain Australia, the consumer voice for Australian’s living with chronic pain, as part of National Pain Week. https://www.australianpharmacist.com.au/breaking-the-vicious-cycle-of-chronic-pain/ It quotes the President of Chronic Pain Australia, Nicolette Ellis, an advanced practice pharmacist, discussing the results of the National Pain… Read More »“Life is a misery” for chronic pain patients force tapered off opioids
In my many years working as a patient advocate, in the area of chronic pain, I have seen and heard a lot of…garbage. People talk a lot of garbage, and pain science seems to attract a lot of garbage science. And yes, garbage scientists. It… Read More »People on long term opioid therapy are ‘irrational’ and unable to engage in shared decision making, according to Dr Mark Sullivan
In recent years, as part of the fear campaign against the use of opioids in pain management, there has been a push to use less, or even no, opioids for pain relief post- surgery. Non-opioid medications, such as paracetamol (Tylenol) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories are being… Read More »Opioid Reduction Strategy Backfires – reduced opioid use during surgery leads to increased opioid use and increased rates of chronic pain
Today in the media, I see a story on opioids and back and neck pain titled Opioids don’t help acute back and neck pain – and could be harmful, Australian research finds. Here’s the study summary the article refers to in the Lancetand I finally… Read More »Opioids and Back and Neck Pain: OPAL Study – Exposing Biased, Flawed Research and Misleading Claims
Study: Reducing Opioid Use for Chronic Pain With a Group-Based Intervention. A Randomized Clinical Trial Ok, so here we go again. Another study, making headlines, where the researchers are making claims that their own study does NOT support. The study’s authors are misrepresenting their results,… Read More »People can taper off opioids without increasing pain. Except that’s a lie.
In America, the consequences of opiophobia since their 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines were introduced, has been the creation of arbitrary ceiling doses for opioid usage & the continued propagation of an opioid “hyperalgesia” myth. AND most alarmingly, leading to the routine persecution, prosecution & jailing of Doctors by their Federal Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA
“Chronic pain is a common and complex condition characterised by persistent pain experienced on most days of the week. It affects 1 in 5 Australians aged 45 and over.” And there is a smaller extremely disadvantaged cohort who suffer severe daily, disabling & intractable pain… Read More »Do Opioids Work for Chronic Pain?
The following American Article talks about promising non-opioid treatments on the horizon for chronic pain, however, of particular note the Author highlights the following: “We now believe that aggressive, appropriate treatment of acute pain after surgery may prevent persistent postoperative chronic pain.” Why has this… Read More »Opioids for post-op Pain should be “Best Practice”, NOT a last resort
IN AMERICA, “The causes of the opioid crisis are now coming to light and a coherent narrative can be constructed. It seems that the CDC, in attempting to deal with a crisis in the streets [i.e. illicit fentanyl] by restricting treatment of pain in clinics,… Read More »War Against Chronic Pain Patients