The Opioid Epidemic in America and Pain

The Opioid Epidemic In December, 2016, Thomas Frieden, MD, Chief of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), reported that in year 2015 the drug overdose death toll in America was the highest on record (1). More than 52,000 people died from a drug...

Lowly Aspirin Versus NSAID Challengers

Introduction In 1982, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was granted jointly to Sune Bergstrom, Bengt Samuelsson, and Sir John Vane, which, in essence, explained the mechanism for the analgesic effect of aspirin. The Nobel Summary pointed out that prostaglandins and related...