Oh-Klahoma! 8 Questions J&J Should Ask Andrew Kolodny

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve |

Oh-Klahoma! 8 Questions J&J Should Ask Andrew Kolodny https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/06/18/oh-klahoma-8-questions-jj-should-ask-andrew-kolodny-14100 The state of Oklahoma is smelling blood in the water and it is going after blood money. State Attorney General Mike Hunter has a very big “blood donor” in his sights: Johnson and Johnson, the maker and seller of opioid drugs, has been accused of deceptive marketing that contributed to the […]

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Andrew Kolodny Rips National Pain Report For Unfair Reporting

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve |

Andrew Kolodny Rips National Pain Report For Unfair Reporting www.nationalpainreport.com/andrew-kolodny-rips-national-pain-report-for-unfair-reporting-8834556.html Dr. Andrew Kolodny has criticized the National Pain Report for what he calls “its unfair and false reporting” on him. He said it is “absolutely false” that he is “aggressively pushing the idea of restricting or eliminating opioid usage” as we indicated this week. “I […]

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Grand Slam Article by Dr. Josh Bloom Shows True Opioid Stats

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve |

Grand Slam Article by Dr. Josh Bloom Shows True Opioid Stats www.medium.com/@heatherzamm/grand-slam-article-from-dr-josh-bloom-shows-true-opioid-statistics-a83331e84161 Government Failure Unreported by Media; Meth Deaths Triple & Then Some Since ‘11 I checked in to the ACSH website as it has been almost a month, with holidays and whatnot, and I was blown away by the article Dr. Bloom had published on December […]

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cost of chronic pain to American society, based upon health care expenditures and cost of lost productivity, is $560-635 billion/year

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve |

Response to Oregon’s Tapering Guidance and Tools www.paindr.com/%ef%bb%bfresponse-to-oregons-tapering-guidance-and-tools/ We welcome guest blogger Dr. Stephen E. Nadeau, Senior Research Advisor, Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain. Dr. Nadeau agreed to share his response to The Oregon Pain Guidance Clinical Advisory Group, Tapering Workgroup*. For more context, the Advisory group recently posted a set of guidelines […]

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Kolodny: a psychiatrist who has no patients or couch, never treated a single patient with intractable pain, and he has never written a single prescription for an opioid drug

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve |

An Open Letter To All Who Hold Public Office In America From Painful Disease Patients View at Medium.com www.medium.com/@heatherzamm/an-open-letter-to-all-who-hold-public-office-in-america-from-painful-disease-patients-e1afebaca945 We are crying out to you today as intractable pain patients who are citizens of the United States and registered voters. We believe any measures considered to reduce the amount of pain medication permitted to intractable […]

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Real Facts Behind the “Opioid Crisis” and the Abandonment of Pain Patients

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve |

This is from a national DPPR member for a handout. The Real Facts Behind the “Opioid Crisis” and the Abandonment of Pain Patients: ● Andrew Kolodny and Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing – PROP (addiction specialists with no experience treating pain) petitioned the FDA in 2012 to change opioid manufacturing guidelines for patients with non-cancer […]

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An Open Letter to Dr. Andrew Kolodny

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve |

An Open Letter to Dr. Andrew Kolodny https://ramblingsoapbox.com/2018/06/26/an-open-letter-to-dr-andrew-kolodny/amp/ Update 6/27/18: I am overwhelmed by the positive responses I have received for this letter. I would ask that readers also take a look at all the articles and references cited in this piece, and share those as well. Those references go into much, much more detail […]

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Kolodny: a drug (opiate) is addictive if it is prescribed for more than three days

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve |

Prescribing Opioids: How Many Are Too Many? www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/prescription-opioid-crisis.html What’s the right painkiller prescription to send home with a patient after gallbladder surgery or a cesarean section? That question is front and center as conventional approaches to pain control in the United States contribute, in the opinion of some experts, to a culture of overprescribing that […]

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Kolodny: has advised members of both political parties on opioid policy

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve |

What Do These Political Ads Have in Common? The Opioid Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/opioid-ads-democrats-republicans.html The scenes in the political ads play out in almost the same order: A heartbreaking story about someone who can’t seem to stop taking drugs. A grim statistic about opioids. And then a somber pitch from a candidate promising solutions. More and more, […]

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Kolodny: 90 MME is an “extremely high, dangerous dose.”

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve |

Lost in the battle to create fewer new patients addicted to opioids: Longtime pain patients http://www.philly.com/philly/health/addiction/chronic-pain-patients-opioid-prescribing-limits-medicare-20180524.html Krissy Houser is one of many chronic pain patients who are feeling besieged by new government and insurance company policies limiting prescription opioids. The Bucks County woman was taking high doses of the highly addictive pain medications until her […]

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