Pain management

Pain management: Tulsa shooting exposes threats doctors face

By ANDREW DeMILLOJune 3, 2022 GMT

The deadly mass shooting at an Oklahoma medical office by a man who blamed his surgeon for continuing pain following an operation on his back underscores the escalating threat of violence doctors have faced in recent years.

NFL awards $1 million for 2 studies on cannabinoids effects

By ROB MAADDIFebruary 1, 2022 GMT

The NFL is awarding $1 million in research funding to two teams of medical researchers to study the effects of cannabinoids on pain management and neuroprotection from concussion in elite football players.

NFL, NFLPA seek alternatives to opioids for pain management

By ROB MAADDIMarch 5, 2021 GMT

The NFL is taking steps to learn more about different ways to help players manage pain.

Last month, the NFL and NFL Players Association asked researchers with experience conducting controlled, experimental studies related to pain management to submit information that may be useful in treating players.

UNH gets grant to design programs to help avoid opioids

August 16, 2020 GMT

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The University of New Hampshire has received a grant for nearly $1 million to provide free online resources and in-person workshops to help people manage chronic pain and avoid the pitfalls of addictive opioids...

Pain doc guilty plea in urinalysis drug test kickback scheme

November 22, 2018 GMT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A doctor who co-owned a Louisiana pain management clinic has pleaded guilty in a scheme to get about $336,000 in health care kickbacks...

Financial judgments awarded victims of ex-Oklahoma doctor

October 6, 2018 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Oklahoma pain management doctor who pleaded guilty in the overdose deaths of several of his patients owes millions of dollars to his victims' families, but it's unlikely they'll ever receive much money...

Chronic pain patients says they’re ‘treated like criminals’

BY CATHY DYSONAugust 19, 2018 GMT

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the former nonprofit director_a woman with a master's degree in social work_moved from North Carolina to Spotsylvania County last fall, she brought detailed medical records about her chronic pain and the opioids she takes to treat them...

Pain management company to close Tennessee clinics in July

July 6, 2018 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of Tennessee's largest pain management companies is closing multiple clinics throughout the state in July, leaving some patients searching for a new source of painkillers...

West Virginia mom sues alleged pill mill over fatal overdose

July 6, 2018 GMT

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — The mother of a man who overdosed in West Virginia is suing a pain management clinic that federal prosecutors say was run as a pill mill...

Health fair highlights pain management, vein treatment, fibroid procedure

Staff WriterApril 11, 2018 GMT

La PORTE — A string of health fairs at the Centers for Pain Control and Vein Care are introducing patients to the growing range of services offered by physicians in the business.

The group recently expanded its services to include treatment for uterine fibroids.

SSM Health St. Clare Hospital offers nitrous oxide for pain management during childbirth

Jake Prinsen | News RepublicApril 9, 2018 GMT

Nitrous oxide has been used as a pain treatment for more than 100 years, but in modern times most people associate the drug with surgery or “laughing gas” at the dentist’s office.

It was commonly used in the early 1900s to ease the pain of childbirth but lost popularity in the United States in favor of stronger painkillers.

Tucson pain doctor indicted on charges involving opioids

April 5, 2018 GMT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A state grand jury has indicted a Tucson doctor who owns a pain management medical clinic on fraud and drug charges.

The indictment charges Dr. David Ruben with prescribing opioids 25 times to 11 patients over a half-year period when he was barred by an Arizona Medical Board order from prescribing, administering, or dispensing certain controlled substances...

Debating how to treat our opioid addiction

By Kylie MohrMarch 7, 2018 GMT

This is the third part in a series on opioid abuse and addiction. — Eds.

Opioids are addictive. And as opioid overdoses continue to rise around the country, the medical community is rethinking the drugs’ place in pain management after decades of thinking they were less dangerous.