Most people think the effects of age only set in at about mid-life. First you’re young, then you suddenly wake up with arthritic knees that can predict a coming storm. You fall asleep in a slightly wrong position and wake up with a back that hurts so much you can barely make it through the work day sitting at your desk. However, aging starts long before any external signs are apparent. It’s best to...
Federal officials have - charged 53 medical professionals - , including 31 doctors, with illegally prescribing and distributing narcotic pain killers. The April 2019 bust, conducted by the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force, proved to be the largest takedown of “whitecoat” opioid prescribers to date. The law enforcement effort focused on states most heavily impacted by the opioid...
The opioid crisis has hit sufferers in two equally profound ways. Overprescribing, misuse and abuse have taken their toll on countless lives, with overdose death rates hitting epidemic proportions (130 per day in the U.S. alone!). But on the flip side of that coin, many doctors have become afraid to prescribe opioid pain medications at all, -causing people who are genuinely suffering to go without...