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VIDEO: Clinicians have community resources for suicide prevention efforts
Suicide prevention requires a multifaceted, comprehensive clinical effort, coupled with an equally comprehensive community effort.
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VIDEO: How a public health approach can cut opioid abuse, suicide risks
Reaching people at risk of opioid abuse and suicide will require a shift beyond focusing on treating individuals.
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VIDEO: Keep index of suspicion high for groups at risk of suicide and substance abuse
WASHINGTON – Suicides increased by 25% during 2000-2015, and opioid-related deaths have quadrupled since 1999, according to the most recent data...
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Opioid deaths and suicides – twin tragedies that need a community-wide response
The health care community is struggling to create a unified plan to overcome the community damage done by the overlapping rise in suicide and...
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Opioid management protocol lowered trauma patient pain medication use
A targeted pain management protocol for trauma patients addressed the problem of overprescribing of opioids.
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Opioid use disorder: Simplifying diagnosis and treatment in primary care
Medicalizing opioid use disorder helps to take away the blame for the ‘chemical copers’ frequently seen in primary care practices.
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Is pain or dependency driving elevated opioid use among long-term cancer survivors?
Rates of opioid prescribing were about 1.2 times higher overall among cancer survivors up to 10 years after diagnosis, compared with matched...
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The opioid crisis: Psychiatrists are well equipped to intervene
Hypnosis, CBT, and other nonpharmacologic approaches to pain management that can help in the effort to reduce opioid use are among the tools...
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Helpful schedules ease task of tapering opioids
ESTES PARK, COLO. – Patients generally tolerate gradual weaning to 30%-50% of original dose.
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Cannabis shows inconsistent benefits for pain, PTSD
What should physicians tell patients seeking medical cannabis for these conditions?
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VHA warns California clinicians on assisted suicide
SAN DIEGO – Ethics officials ban clinicians from doing anything for patients related to the state’s physician aid-in-dying law.