by Micke Brown, BSN, RN | Mar 24, 2015 | Medications, Treatment Options |
A blog written by Charlie P. Reznikoff, MD was shared by Medscape on March 16, 2015 titled 10 Scripts Never to Write. It gave me pause, enough so that I shared it with respected colleagues in the pain management field for their perspectives. It was suggested to me...
by Micke Brown, BSN, RN | Dec 9, 2014 | Medications, Treatment Options |
Mid November 2014, I received a Maryland State Health Alert from our Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene, Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD titled, Prescribe Naloxone and Save Lives: An Alert for Maryland Clinicians. The body of the text stated the following: The Maryland...
by Teresa Shaffer | Aug 5, 2014 | Advocacy, Medications, Self-Advocacy, Treatment Options |
It seems like just about every media article talking about pain medications has become a feeding frenzy which reports one side of the story. They take advantage of the uninformed and promote fear with biased and unsubstantiated claims that everyone who is prescribed...
by Janice Reynolds | Apr 25, 2014 | Daily Living, Medications |
In today’s world especially for those of us with persistent pain, a most important medical document is our medication list. Did you know that it is now are requirement to perform a medication reconciliation during each hospital visit? On admission, nursing must...
by Mark Maginn | Dec 10, 2013 | Daily Living, Dental Care, Side Effects |
Several years ago I began taking opioid medicines to combat the hideous pain I’d been living with for decades. It worked and I began to experience the happy diminution of pain throughout my body. But–there’s always a “but” in happy stories–a few years ago...
by Janice Reynolds | Oct 8, 2013 | Daily Living, Home Remedies, Side Effects |
with apologizes to Taro Gomi and Amanda Mayer Stinchecum Everybody Poops (by Gomi & Stinchecum) has been a favorite children’s book for over ten years. Kids love body functions; they find them hysterically funny. Sadly, as we get older, many of us lose our sense...
