Opioids: Friend, Foe or… Neither?
Crack-down on kitchen knives! New law limits number of kitchen knives per household: Measures protect Americans, save lives! Need a new knife? Show ID! Hardware stores reduce number of kitchen knives to 15 per month, refuse to sell all in stock to any one individual. “What would happen to others who needed a knife to…
Myths About Opiates and Addiction Affect Pain Management
This week, I wrote another post for HealthCentral’s theme of living with pain for Pain Awareness Month. Since it is also National Recovery Month, I combined the two topics: “You have the right to effective pain management. In fact, two years ago, the International Pain Summit in Montréal declared that it is a human right…
In Which My Mother Scares Everybody
“She’s in the ICU.” These are not words you want to hear about your mother. Well, about anyone, I suspect, but in this particular case, we’d expected her (relatively) routine back surgery – spinal fusion and correcting spinal stenosis – to go smoothly and to receive a call from someone on a regular ward telling…
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