Drug prescribing for older adults Author: Paula A Rochon, MD, MPH, FRCPC Section Editor: Kenneth E Schmader, MD Deputy Editor: Daniel J Sullivan, MD, MPH Contributor Disclosures All topics are updated as new evidence becomes available and our peer review process is complete. Literature review current through: Dec 2017. | This topic last updated: May 26, 2017. INTRODUCTION — Optimizing drug therapy isContinue reading “Drug prescribing for older adults in the USA”
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New Painkillers Reduce Overdose Risk
Benzodiazepines Increase Mortality in Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease
Un-medicated 92 yr old with Dementia and unnecessary tests
Approximately $200 billion is spent every year on healthcare services in the U.S. that provide little value to patients. A Health Affairs study published in April found only a 4% decrease in low-value back imagining 2.5 years after the Choosing Wisely campaign launched. Another study published in JAMA Internal Medicine of seven Choosing Wisely recommendations found only two recommendations had “modest” decreases in usage.
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OPIOID FALLOUT
OPIOID FALLOUT The opioid and heroin epidemic has ravaged swaths of the United States, with opioids playing a role in more than 33,000 deaths in 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 30 states expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, making the healthcare law the most comprehensive financial government response toContinue reading “OPIOID FALLOUT”
Prescribing Opiods , problems and solutions
Opioid prescriptions dropped for the first time since the modern addiction crisis began,
Opioid prescriptions dropped for the first time since the modern addiction crisis began, federal government says The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said prescriptions for highly addictive painkillers such as oxycodone dropped 13.1 percent between 2012 and 2015, offering a glimmer of progress in efforts to quell the worst drug epidemic in U.S. history.Continue reading “Opioid prescriptions dropped for the first time since the modern addiction crisis began,”
Prescription drugs leading cause of death
Across the country, 44,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2013, more than double the number in 1999, the study by the non-profit group, Trust for America’s Health found. Nearly 52 percent of the deaths were related to prescription drugs. The number of overdose deaths increased in 26 states in the four years to 2013, theContinue reading “Prescription drugs leading cause of death”