Monday, November 18, 2019
Mandated Queries of the Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: A Three-Month Experience from a Cancer Center-Based Outpatient Palliative Medicine Clinic
by Chad Kollas (@ChadDKollas)
Background and Introduction
On July 2, 2018, Florida implemented a new law requiring all licensed physicians to query the state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP), known as the Electronic Florida Online Reporting of Controlled Substances Evaluation (E-FORSCE), before prescribing controlled medications,...
Monday, November 18, 2019
Friday, November 1, 2019
by Lizzy Miles (@LizzyMiles_MSW)
No one should ever be “put” in a nursing home. You might agree with this statement because you don’t like nursing homes, but that is not what I’m saying. The word “put” is offensive when you are describing a person, unless you are talking about putting a 3 year old in the time out corner because he colored...
Friday, November 1, 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2019
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)
A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.
This is the 5th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:
Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and...
Sunday, October 6, 2019
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)
A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.
This is the 5th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:
Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing,...
Saturday, October 5, 2019
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)
A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.
This is the 4th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:
Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and...
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Part 3 - Opioids Have Ceiling Effects, High-Doses are Rarely Therapeutic, and Another Hand-Crafted Graph
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)
A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.
This is the 3rd post in a series about opioid, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:
Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and...
Friday, October 4, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Part 2 - We Were Wrong 20 Years Ago, Our Current Response to the Opioid Crisis is Wrong, But We Should Still Be Helping Most of our Long-Term Patients Reduce Their Opioid Doses
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)
This is the second in a series of several posts about many aspects of my current thinking about opioids.
The first post is here: Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and a Hand-Crafted Graph.
Over-prescribing fueled the current drug overdose epidemic, and many of us who thought we...
Thursday, October 3, 2019
A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)
Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and a Hand-Crafted Graph.
This is the first in a series of several posts about many aspects of my current thinking about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years.
Opioids, opioids, opioids. The working title...
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