Show 1290: Approaches for Managing Chronic Pain (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 50 million American suffer from debilitating chronic pain. Despite that number, in 2016 the agency issued stringent guidelines limiting opioid prescriptions to a bare minimum. Such drugs are often the first line for treating pain. Unfortunately, although this was an effort to reduce drug overdose […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Grady. And I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com
0:14.0	50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain.
0:18.0	It can destroy the quality of one's life and affect family relationships.
0:22.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe
0:25.8	Grady.
0:26.8	When you don't have pain, you never think of it. When you do, it's all you can think of
0:38.9	New York Times columnist Ross Doubt it will describe how pain from Lyme disease altered his life.
0:46.1	This week the CDC presented its revised opioid prescribing guidelines instead of requiring doctors to limit the amount of narcotics they prescribe,
0:56.6	the proposed new guidelines urge prescribers to use their best judgment.
1:01.6	Pain Specialist Dr. Sean Mackie describes how his team develops individualized pain
1:06.8	management plans.
1:08.4	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, overcoming chronic pain.
1:14.0	In the people's pharmacy health headlines,
1:17.0	even people who have mild cases of COVID-19
1:20.0	may be vulnerable to long lasting cardiovascular complications.
1:25.0	A new study in the journal Nature Medicine tracked data on more than 150,000 veterans who had
1:30.6	survived a coronavirus infection.
1:33.0	The investigators compared records from these veterans
1:36.0	with those from over 5 million patients who were not infected with SARS COV2.
1:41.0	They also found a second control group of almost 6 million patients whose records
1:46.4	predated the pandemic. Compared to the controls, those who had recovered from COVID were significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack,
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