Senate Passes Opioid Addiction Treatment Measure The U.S. Senate voted 94-1 to fund opioid addiction treatment for prisoners, to increase opioid abuse prevention efforts and to expand the availability of the anti-overdose drug naloxone (Narcan). March 30, 2016 News CARA, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act , drug abuse, opioid 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 »
