September is Pain Awareness Month and later this month, Stanford will host a Free Back Pain Education Day. The event, sponsored by the Division of …
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Student engineers unveil tamper-proof pill bottle
The United States has been battling a prescription painkiller epidemic for years. The statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are chilling: The …
The problem of prescription opioids: “An extraordinarily timely topic”
Suffer from pain? Or become an addict? Bemoan the epidemic of pain? Or decry the epidemic of opioid addiction? At first glance, pain and addiction …
Assessing the opioid overdose epidemic
In recent years, doctors and policy-makers have become aware of the dangers of prescription opioid medications like methadone, oxycodone and hydrocodone (which is sold as …