Proposed changes are open to public comment until April 11th.
Proposed changes are open to public comment until April 11th.
Changes center around improving the assessment of mental and behavioral impairment.
AMA hopes to shift from a crisis-reaction framework to a more holistic model that prevents overdose while helping pain patients receive care.
The AMA suggests that prescription medications are no longer a significant factor in the opioid epidemic, and that opioid prescription limits should change.
Prescribing has doubled since 2003, overdose deaths quadrupled since 1996, and misuse accounts for 20% of benzodiazepine use.
A new JAMA study finds that increased county-level opioid marketing was tied to elevated overdose mortality.
An analysis of 90,000 private claims explores the relationship between early PT and reduced long-term opioid use in musculoskeletal pain.
A study of 9,596 claimants who filled an opioid prescription found that 30% were still taking opioids 90 days later.
In a randomized clinical trial of 460 patients, researchers found the treatment to have similar impact on self-rated disability as standard wound dressing.
