Node Smith, ND When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug. Now the state’s surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists are becoming [...]

Node Smith, ND Ketamine has gotten a bad rap as an opioid when there’s plenty of evidence suggesting it isn’t one, Johns Hopkins experts say. They believe this reputation may hamper patients from [...]

Node Smith, ND Nearly half of American women having a baby in the last decade received a prescription for a powerful opioid painkiller as part of their birth experience, a new study shows. And [...]

Node Smith, ND A project led by psychologist Dr Trevor Thompson of the University of Greenwich found that hypnosis is more effective with people who are especially amenable to suggestion. But it [...]

Node Smith, ND Taking prescribed opioids raises the risk of pneumonia, new Yale-led study finds The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, reinforces the concern that prescription opioid [...]

Reprinted from University Health Network A unique pain program is helping complex surgical patients wean off opioids safely and effectively, while offering alternative ways to cope with their [...]

Node Smith, ND Could “digital pills” be the next big ethical question in medicine? Digital pills, ingestible sensors encapsulated in a gelatin coating, can now be taken along with medications to [...]

Jamie Corroon, ND, MPH Naturopathic Perspective In the absence of a few basic statistics, the significance of the opioid epidemic in the United States can be easily underappreciated. In 2015, the [...]

Recently, Amy Goodman with Democracy Now, conducted an interview with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein regarding a recent lawsuit being filed by multiple states against opioid manufacturers [...]

Naltrexone and Naloxone: Current Marketed Opioid Antagonists The other day a conversation in a community clinic centered around the use of opioid antagonists in both acute overdose, and also [...]