The latest CDC data find that deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased by a staggering 80% over the past 2 years. These drugs were involved in more than two-thirds of the overdose deaths in the year ending March 2022.
Loren Bonner
Ninety-five percent of gabapentin prescriptions are written for off-label pain management, despite studies questioning gabapentin’s effectiveness for managing pain, and reports of its misuse with simultaneous opioid therapy.
Too often, clinicians question whether they are making the right decision about a patient’s anticoagulation therapy with planned, nonemergent surgical procedures.
Ariel L. Clark, PharmD
Updates from FDA
Headaches are a common complaint among patients of all ages, with women nearly twice as likely as men to have had a severe headache or migraine in the past 3 months.
Mary Warner