Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency
Clinicians across medical settings commonly euphemize or understate pain, which has concerning implications for patient trust, consent, and care quality.
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Read more: Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy
An American public health and safety-promoting drug policy agenda grounded in sound science is long overdue.
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Read more: A Look at Florida’s Decade-Long Effort to Curb the Opioid Epidemic A Look at Florida’s Decade-Long Effort to Curb the Opioid Epidemic
Over the years, Florida has implemented legal and regulatory responses to the opioid epidemic that have been met with both success and continued challenges.
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Read more: Could Vioxx Make a Comeback? Recalled Drug Receives Orphan Designation Could Vioxx Make a Comeback? Recalled Drug Receives Orphan Designation
Over a decade after being recalled, rofecoxib received orphan drug designation for the treatment of pain caused by hemophilic arthropathy.
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Read more: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Starts with How We Treat Pain Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Starts with How We Treat Pain
By Stephen Wood As a nurse practitioner in a busy suburban emergency department, pain is my job. Pain is one of the most common reasons people come to an emergency department (ED). It could be abdominal pain, chest pain, back pain or even emotional pain, including depression or suicidal ideations. Pain is a driver for…
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Read more: What Should the Future Look Like for Brain-Based Pain Imaging in the Law? Three Eminent Scholars Weigh In What Should the Future Look Like for Brain-Based Pain Imaging in the Law? Three Eminent Scholars Weigh In
By Amanda C. Pustilnik What should the future look like for brain-based pain measurement in the law? This is the question tackled by our concluding three contributors: Diane Hoffmann, Henry (“Hank”) T. Greely, and Frank Pasquale. Professors Hoffmann and Greely are among the founders of the fields of health law and law & biosciences. Both…
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Read more: Neuroimaging as Evidence of Pain: It’s Time to Prepare Neuroimaging as Evidence of Pain: It’s Time to Prepare
By Henry T. Greely The recent meeting at Harvard on neuroimaging, pain, and the law demonstrated powerfully that the offering of neuroimaging as evidence of pain, in court and in administrative hearings, is growing closer. The science for identifying a likely pattern of neuroimaging results strongly associated with the subjective sensation of pain keeps improving….
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Read more: Of Algorithms, Algometry, and Others: Pain Measurement & The Quantification of Distrust Of Algorithms, Algometry, and Others: Pain Measurement & The Quantification of Distrust
By Frank Pasquale Many thanks to Amanda for the opportunity to post as a guest in this symposium. I was thinking more about neuroethics half a decade ago, and my scholarly agenda has, since then, focused mainly on algorithms, automation, and health IT. But there is an important common thread: The unintended consequences of technology….
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Read more: An ELSI Program for Pain Research: A Call to Action An ELSI Program for Pain Research: A Call to Action
By Diane Hoffmann As someone who has been greatly concerned about and devoted much of my scholarship to legal obstacles to the treatment of pain, I applaud Professor Pustilnik for increasing attention to the role of neuroimaging in our efforts to understand our experience of pain and how the law does or does not adequately…
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Read more: Emotion and Pain – Beyond “All in Your Head” Emotion and Pain – Beyond “All in Your Head”
By David Seminowicz A potential difficulty, but also an opportunity, relating to using neuroimaging evidence in legal cases arises from the difficulty brain researchers have in separating emotional and physical pain. We know that pain and emotion are tightly linked. In fact, “emotion” is in the very definition of pain. The IASP definition of pain…