| Article
West Virginia continues to lead the nation, and world, in drug overdoses, which makes one ponder what is being done at the “ground zero” of the opioid epidemic to save and improve lives. Where better than where it’s worst should some of the possible solutions come from? In 2016, an interprofessional...
| Article
There is a significant amount of media, political, and public attention paid to the opioid crisis/opioid epidemic in the United States today. With the seemingly ever-increasing number of opioid-related overdoses and fatalities, there has been a feverish push by stakeholders to diminish the amount of...
| Article
>Drug testing is part of a complete patient evaluation and ongoing risk monitoring in most medical practice settings when treatment involves long-term use of controlled medication. Today’s licensing board guidelines and rules, and position papers published by professional societies, make clear that...
| Article
Pain is the number one reason why patients seek advice from their pharmacist or primary care provider. Patients very often seek to use a nonprescription analgesic to self-treat a painful complaint, yet often do not understand the exclusions to self-treatment or how to select the best analgesic...
| Article
Why yet another lecture on migraine headaches, you ask? Migraine is the third most common disease in the world (behind dental caries and tension-type headache) with an estimated global prevalence of approximately 15% (that's around 1 in 7 people). Migraine is more prevalent than diabetes, epilepsy...
| Article
Appropriate prescribing for acute and chronic pain in the midst of the opioid epidemic requires a strong knowledge of pain pathways and underlying mechanisms to optimize treatment decision-making. This symposium will integrate 3D modeling to bring pain and addiction mechanisms to life in order to...