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A Year After Minor Surgery, Some Patients Are Still Taking Opioid Painkillers
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April 12, 2012A Canadian research team found that 10% of elderly patients who received heavy-duty pain killers after minor surgeries were still using them a year later and may have developed addictions. Continue Reading
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For the first time in U.S. history, the number of people who died from narcotic drugs is greater than the number who died in car crashes. A new study found that in 2009, the most recent year for such statistics, 37,485 died from opioid drug complications, and 36,284 were automobile fatalities. In 1999, 13,800 died from opioids. Continue Reading
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported the findings from a study which assigned hard numbers to the country’s epidemic of prescription drug abuse and the issue of chronic pain management. According to the article, those two problems combine to cost taxpayers, employers and insurers upwards of $323 billion each year. Continue Reading
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The number of deaths directly attributable to opioids like OxyContin and Vicodin has risen sharply in both the United States and Canada in recent years. Continue Reading
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Many Canadians are living with continuous chronic pain or at the very least sporadic aches that may last up to six months or longer. Continue Reading
