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Safe prescribing can lessen overdose risk

In what one commentator called an “appalling” finding, 90% of patients in a recent study admitted to a hospital with a prescription opioid overdose eventually received another opioid prescription##mdash;often from the same clinician. Efforts to improve safe prescribing hope to fix the problem.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/10/overdose.htm
1 Oct 2016

Education program for prescribing opioids now available

ACP and its curriculum partner Pri-Med have launched “SAFE Opioid Prescribing,” an online training program to educate clinicians about safety and efficacy when prescribing opioids.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/23/6.htm
23 Jul 2013

States aim to limit opioid prescriptions

In an effort to curb the nation's opioid crisis, state legislators are pursuing laws to limit prescribing, resulting in pushback from some doctors worried about the clinical implications, or in some cases physicians backing off from treating chronic pain patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/10/laws.htm
1 Oct 2016

Carve out cancer patients from opioid restriction programs, ASCO says

The society does not support prescription limits that would artificially impede access to medically necessary treatment for patients with cancer, but does support existing exemptions to prescribing limits for cancer patients.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/07/2.htm
7 Jun 2016

SPRINT prompts new debate on BP targets

This issue covers topics such as management of hypertension, integrative medicine, and follow-up care for colorectal cancer.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/03/editors.htm
1 Mar 2016

Opioids may be associated with increased risk for serious invasive pneumococcal infections

Patients with invasive pneumococcal disease had significantly greater odds than control participants of being current opioid users, and associations were strongest for long-acting opioids, high-potency opioids, and high-dose opioids.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/02/13/1.htm
13 Feb 2018

Internal Medicine Meeting 2016 covers clinical questions

Internists working to implement best practices on complicated topics will find a wealth of advice at Internal Medicine Meeting 2016, to be held May 5-7 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/03/IMM.htm
1 Mar 2016

Physicians might control long-term opioid use through initial prescribing habits, study says

Researchers concluded that the probability of long-term opioid use can be minimized by starting with a single prescription of a short-acting opioid, with no refills, and a cumulative dose less than 120 morphine milligram equivalents.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/09/1.htm
9 Aug 2016

Government service offers Fellow a chance to help millions

Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, MD, MPH, FACP, North Carolina's new secretary of its Department of Health and Human Services, sees government service as a way to help a wide constituency—patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/11/government-service-offers-fellow-a-chance-to-help-millions.htm
1 Nov 2017

Reproductive-age women widely prescribed opioid medications

Opioid-containing medications are widely prescribed among reproductive-age women with either private insurance or Medicaid, with approximately one-fourth of privately insured and more than one-third of Medicaid-enrolled women filling a prescription for an opioid each year from 2008 to 2012.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/02/03/2.htm
3 Feb 2015

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