On this week’s #SciencePodcast🎙: Looking back at the unfolding of the opioid crisis in the United States, printing proteins in gummy candy, and rounding up summer books.
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Tag Archives: Opioids
Morning News Podcast: Opioid Payment, GameStop Profits, Employment Data
A.M. Edition for Feb. 4. A hedge fund made nearly $700 million in the GameStop rally. Consulting giant McKinsey reaches a settlement centering on opioid painkillers.
Plus, WSJ economics reporter Kate Davidson previews coming jobs data. Marc Stewart hosts.
Morning News Podcast: Iran & Russia Interfere In 2020 Election, Opioids
U.S. intelligence agencies say Iran, Russia have tried to interfere in 2020 election, Purdue Pharma reaches $8.34 billion settlement over opioid probes, and keeping it civil in the cul-de-sac.
Studies: Osteoarthritis Patients Using Exercise Therapy Have Less Pain, Cut Opioid & Analgesic Use
Conclusion Among patients with knee or hip OA using analgesics, more than half either discontinued analgesic use or shifted to lower risk analgesics following an 8-week structured exercise therapy and patient education programme (GLA:D). These data encourage randomised controlled trial evaluation of whether supervised exercise therapy, combined with patient education, can reduce analgesic use, including opioids, among patients with knee and hip OA pain.
Prescription Drugs: BioEthicist Travis Rieder’s Personal Struggle With Opioids (Podcast)
From NPR podcast of Fresh Air with Terry Gross:
Rieder likens his experiences trying to get off prescription pain meds to a game of hot potato. “The patient is the potato,” he says. “Everybody had a reason to send me to somebody else.”
Eventually Rieder was able to wean himself off the drugs, but not before receiving bad advice and going through intense periods of withdrawal. He shares his insights as both a patient and a bioethicist in a new book, In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle With Opioids.
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In 2015, Travis Rieder, a medical bioethicist with Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, was involved in a motorcycle accident that crushed his left foot. In the months that followed, he underwent six different surgeries as doctors struggled first to save his foot and then to reconstruct it.
Rieder says that each surgery brought a new wave of pain, sometimes “searing and electrical,” other times “fiery and shocking.” Doctors tried to mitigate the pain by prescribing large doses of opioids, including morphine, fentanyl, Dilaudid, oxycodone and OxyContin. But when it came time to taper off the drugs, Rieder found it nearly impossible to get good advice from any of the clinicians who had treated him.
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