opioids

Three little letters that mean so much to a patient: PRN. It’s a term often used but poorly understood. We see it on prescription bottles. We look at it but we just glance over it.

Join ACSH directors of bio-sciences and chemistry Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom as they break down these stories on episode 18 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

'German Lopez is one of journalism’s clearest writers on a remarkable array of topics, including the opioid epidemic, crime, gun control, taxes, the economy, Congress and Covid.

I have been writing about the now disastrous consequences of withholding opioid pain medications from pain patients with legitimate needs since 2013 – well before most other organizations.

Red Lawhern Ph.D., a healthcare writer and member of the ACSH Board of Advisors, has repeatedly demanded that CDC respond to their many critics who have pointed out that the 2016 US CDC guidelines on opioid prescribing to adults with chronic non-c

 

I've written more than 75 articles about the travesty that is now our drug "policy." Many of them can be found on the ACS

Our resident chemist, Dr. Josh Bloom, has followed the opioid crisis for several years. He was the first to raise the alarm that opioid overdoses and deaths were being driven largely by fentanyl, not Vicodin or other prescription pills.

Anyone in the mood for some confusion? If so, keep reading. Below are some random quotes I stumbled across while doing a Google news search of the term "synthetic opioids." It didn't take long.

"I cut it twice and it's still too short" is an old carpenter's joke about persistence coupled with incompetence. It's a pretty good joke.