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1:403 days agoCBD oil going mainstream?From luxury boutiques to national pharmacy chains, CBD products are showing up on shelves as more Americans turn to CBD oil to help with pain, anxiety and sleep issues.
April 11Health officials warn against rapidly tapering down opioids for pain patients: ‘It’s a game-changer’The U.S. federal health agencies behind efforts to address the nation's harrowing opioid epidemic took major steps this week to address a brewing public health crisis involving pain patients who have been wrongly cut off or abruptly tapered down from their prescription painkillers.
April 3Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds is on a mission to 'mainstream' his painful 'hidden' disease with new campaignImagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds tells Fox News about his new campaign — "Monster Pain in the AS" — which raises awareness for ankylosing spondylitis, an agonizing autoimmune disorder that affects the spine, sometimes causing vertebrae to fuse.
March 27Gov. Cuomo's proposed prescription opioid surcharge under fire, critics call it tax on painA proposal by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to impose a surcharge on the sale of prescription opioids is drawing fire from a coalition of doctors, pharmacists and patients who say it amounts to a tax on pain.
1:12February 21Mom shares devastating drug overdose picture of her son to warn about opioid epidemicA grieving mother from Delaware is hoping that sharing a heartbreaking image of her identifying her son’s body at a morgue after he overdosed on opioids and fentanyl will force others to recognize the reality of the nation's drug epidemic.
February 20Doctors have been prescribing fentanyl to the wrong patients for years, new study findsPrescription fentanyl, a highly potent and immediate-release drug meant for people with advanced cancer who have been on an opioid treatment, has been inappropriately prescribed to people who did not meet the criteria, says a new study by Johns Hopkins University researchers.
0:54February 14Colorado woman writes ‘breakup’ note on foot before amputationA Colorado woman wrote a series of ‘breakup’ notes on her foot before it was amputated.
0:50February 6New study examines how lack of sleep can affect how much pain you feelResearchers say a sleep-deprived brain produces less dopamine which is used in the brain to control pain.
