Pain Management

Pharmacists can counsel on prescription and OTC options, as well as nonpharmacologic measures.

Keynote speaker Dan Schneider, from the Netflix documentary “The Pharmacist,” discusses his story and mission to end the opioid epidemic.

Americans in underserved communities face barriers to opioid use disorder treatment.

In addition to reducing the frequency of migraine days, galcanezumab may also potentially decrease disabling non-pain symptoms of migraine on days when migraine is present.

The relatively new biologic therapies for migraine demonstrated low immunogenicity rates and rare adverse events.

Patients reported more frequent and severe migraines, along with overuse of analgesics.

Tanvee Thakur, PhD, BPharm, recently completed a project focused on enhancing transparent opioid education.

Elizabeth Dragatsi, RPh, BCPS, worked on 2 projects integrating community pharmacists into contingency management and opioid education.

Here are some of the top-read FDA approvals covered by Drug Topics® from this year.

The Drug Topics® team rounded up some of our top-read articles from the last year.

You’ll be hard pressed to find a pharmacist as excited about change as Ashli Yoder, PharmD, the clinical services lead for Norland Avenue Pharmacy in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Acetaminophen injection, 1000 mg/100 mL, is an FDA-approved generic to Ofirmev.

US prescription opioid use dropped 60% from its peak volume in 2011, according to a new report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

Counsel patients on best practices for disposal of unused or expired pain medications.

The pharmaceutical company has submitted a New Drug Application for dihydroergotamine mesylate for fast and lasting whole migraine relief in adults with and without aura.

A study presented during PAINWeek 2020 Live Virtual Conference highlights the role of e-consultations in reducing opioid use.

Add value by optimizing medications, decreasing pill burden.

Often what parents reach for to relieve a child’s pain or fever, a new meta-analysis looks at the efficacy and safety of ibuprofen and acetaminophen.

A virtual session held during the NCPA 2020 Annual Convention discussed best practices for handling opioid prescriptions.

The agency warns that use of NSAIDs around 20 weeks or later in pregnancy may cause rare but serious kidney problems in an unborn baby.

Oliceridine (Olinvyk; Trevena, Inc) is an intravenous opioid agonist indicated in adults for management of acute severe pain in a hospital or controlled clinical setting.

The rate of prescribing opioids among both oncologists and non-oncologists has dropped significantly in the past few years.

Pharmacists are uniquely qualified to ensure patients receive sufficient pain relief.

Pharmacists, nurses, and physicians work together to combat the overuse of powerful pain relievers.

Tramadol hydrochloride (Qdolo; Athena Bioscience) oral solution is indicated for use when pain is severe enough to require an opioid analgesic and for which alternative treatments are inadequate.