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There’s been a new update to the CDC’s Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain. These updates include emphasizing non-opioid alternatives when available, but also flexibility, which has been widely held as a more appropriate stance for the CDC to take when giving healthcare providers more options for treating patients. Dr. Michael Sprintz, […]

They say that everything is bigger in Texas, which seems to include the demand for electricity this summer. According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Electricity use on the main Texas grid is estimated to peak at nearly 80 gigawatts and meet new records this week as the heat increases. To put these numbers into […]

While healthcare in the United States is often the topic of a heated political debate, there is one subject within it that irks patients and healthcare practitioners alike: time. One of the biggest problems with healthcare right now is the lack of time. Providers are finding their schedules limited while patients are having trouble booking […]

The opioid crisis in the United States is on the rise. Overdose deaths continue to escalate, even with increased measures to curtail illegal access to subscription medication. The CDC estimates annual overdose deaths top 100,000.  On April 21, 2022, President Biden provided Congress with his administration’s first National Drug Control Strategy. The strategy focuses on […]

Key Points: Dr. Sprintz weighs in on the latest news of the opioid crisis. McKinsey & Company under fire for conflict of interest with Purdue Pharma and FDA. Disclosure, honesty, and transparency are among the top traits in ethical business. Possibly one of the hottest topics in the pain and addiction management industry is the […]