Dr. Lynn Webster Talks Opioid Use on Reddit Ask Me Anything

PRESCRIPTION OPIOIDS MUST BE USED WITH CARE Our country is currently facing a crisis. The CDC estimates that opioids were involved with more than 28,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2014. The CDC estimates that at least half involved a prescription opioid. The numbers are staggering. Opioids cannot simply be dismissed, however. Despite the inherent…

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Acceptance with Resilience – Living with Chronic Pain

Several years ago, I happened to be reading a research article about people who had lost limbs in landmine explosions, when I ran across a psychological distinction that I’ve seen validated many times since then. It seems that one of the major factors determining the quality of recovery for someone who has suffered this kind…

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Medical marijuana laws may reduce painkiller overdoses

By Saundra Young, CNN updated 3:24 PM EDT, Tue August 26, 2014 (CNN) — States that have legalized marijuana for managing chronic pain have significantly fewer deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses each year, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers looked at medical marijuana laws and death certificate data in…

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DEA Ends Investigation of Pain Doctor

DEA Ends Investigation of Pain Doctor Lynn Webster, MD In 2013, it came to light that three year’s earlier the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had opened an investigation of then-president-elect of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) Lynn Webster, MD, related to overdose deaths at Dr. Webster’s Lifetree Pain Clinic in Salt Lake City.…

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Finding a life with meaning by managing pain

August 22 Jerald Winakur’s Aug. 18 op-ed, “When a friend asks to die,” and WAMU-FM host Diane Rehm’s account for NPR of the death of her husband have renewed the conversation over living with meaning.In my decades of treating people with the worst imaginable chronic pain, patients often told me they would rather die than…

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