Facing Addiction in America: New Surgeon General's Report Could be another Landmark U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, issued a landmark report, "Facing Addiction in America," early Thursday highlighting the scope of the nation's drug and alcohol problem, examining the science, and demanding an evidence-based, integrated public health response. An informed look at the new Surgeon General's report will appear in the January/February edition of San Francisco Medicine; for now, this MedPage story contains a good analysis and links to the report itself: November 18, 2016 Medications, Physician Resource Addiction, Addiction Medicine, Opioids, Surgeon General 0 0 Comment Read More »
“Red Flags” in the Emergency Department: Pain Treatment vs. the Painful Epidemic of Addiction Every emergency clinician knows them, and most learn to dread them—the patients who might be “drug-seekers” or might be in real physical pain—or might be both. How to screen the addicts from the "legitimate" pain patients? May 1, 2012 Physician Resource, San Francisco Medicine, SFMS Member addiction medicine, opioid, pain treatment 0 0 Comment Read More »
