Nicole Scheff, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neuroiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Opioids are often first-line treatments for ...

Vasco M. Pontinha, PhD, MBA, MPharm, discusses the clinical and economic implications of long-term opioid therapy.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Opioids prescribing declined from 2016 to 2020 for patients with cancer in Connecticut who did not report ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three measures of opioid prescribing for people with cancer declined significantly after cannabis dispensaries ...

Opioids remain a staple in pain management for cancer, but there is little guidance around how to treat patients who have a history of opioid misuse. Recently, a group of palliative and addiction ...

Mary Sage lay frozen in place, in such severe pain she couldn’t will herself off the chiropractor’s table. It was 2015, and Sage, then a 56-year-old program operation analyst at the University of ...

A recent analysis reveals a modest decline from 2016 to 2020 in new and additional opioid prescriptions for patients with cancer. Among those patients with metastatic cancer, prescribing remained ...

New opioid prescribing was stable for patients with metastatic cancer with pain and declined for those reporting no pain. (HealthDay News) — Among patients with newly diagnosed cancer, new and ...

Achieving opioid pharmacoequity or ensuring access to evidence-based pharmacologic therapies regardless of race and ethnicity is a pressing issue in cancer care. 7 This commentary focuses on the role ...

A national claims analysis found that opening medical or recreational cannabis dispensaries was associated with fewer opioid prescriptions and shorter opioid supplies among commercially insured adults ...

International Survey of Psychosocial Care for Cancer Survivors in Low-/Middle- and High-Income Countries: Current Practices, Barriers, and Facilitators to Care Two ...