Weaning Off Prescribing Opioids - A. Baxter MD

Republished from Op-Med.

Ending Acute Outpatient Opioids: A Wake-Up Call! A. Baxter MD

Unlike other drug crises, 80% of opioid addiction starts with a pillprescribed by a physician or...

Uncovering the Payor Role in the Opioid Crisis - A. Baxter MD

Addiction is costly to treat and heartbreaking to watch. While the public focuses onpharma...

Buzzy “Highly Recommended” In National Injection Guidelines

Non-adherence is a significant problem in medical management. New national guidelines recommend...

‘Yanny or Laurel’ is the Key to Marketing (and Maybe Fixing America)

If you are tapped in to social media or have teenagers, by now you’ve probably heard the Yanny...

5 Things in Your Kitchen that Fight the Flu

Everyone knows someone who is sick these days. There’s a lot of misinformation about what can or...

Attacking the Opioid Crisis on a Budget: 8 Innovative Ideas

Political talk is cheap, substance abuse programs are expensive, and the nature of the crisis...

Stopping The Opioid Epidemic – Pain. Physicians. Payment. Simple.

Pain is the root of the opioid epidemic. When opioid use leads to addiction, solutions require...

Stopping The Opioid Epidemic – Pain. Physicians. Payment. Simple.

Pain is the root of the opioid epidemic. When opioid use leads to addiction, solutions require...

Why Inventors Are Rarely Innovators

Ah, the quest for innovation! Healthcare technology conferences, director level positions and...

Why 2/3 of Gen Z Won’t Buy Insurance Without a Mandate

The disappointing uptake of Obamacare by millennials has been explained by several theories....

Healthcare wants patients to take an active role: this is what empowerment looks like

At January’s JPMorgan Healthcare conference, hospitals focused on the patient journey, startups...

Seeing what wasn’t there – 5 observations of opportunity at the #JPM16 conference

As a researcher, I find the best scientists are those who digest a broad spectrum of...

People don’t “get over” needle fear. Without FluMist, we need needle-free options

When I lecture on needle fear, someone – a scientist, a doctor, a public health policy guru –...

To avoid opioid addiction, face pain like a dancer

In retrospect, we were an addicted nation waiting to happen. Not from a self-indulgent culture,...