As prescribers attempt to prevent and even reverse the over-prescribing of opioids to reduce misuse and overdose, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that some practices being attributed to its 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (Guideline) are inconsistent with...
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DENVER (May 1, 2019) – Cordant Health Solutions™, a provider of innovative tools for monitoring and managing behavioral health and chronic pain patients through its unique pharmacy and drug testing programs, released data today detailing how a patented medication monitoring test, Cordant CORE™, can supply...
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Cordant Study Finds Patients Continue to Use Alcohol and Prescription Drugs Concurrently, Despite Label WarningsAs part of Alcohol Awareness Month, Cordant Health Solutions™ (Cordant), a provider of innovative tools for chronic pain, mental health and workers’ compensation providers through its uniquely integrated drug testing programs,...
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As providers try to find non-addictive alternatives to opioids to treat pain, prescriptions for off-label use of gabapentin have been climbing. Perhaps best known for treating pain associated with shingles, gabapentin does not show affinity for the same types of receptor sites in the brain...
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Cordant Announces Expanded Mental Health Monitoring Capabilities to Increase Medication Adherence for Chronic Conditions Cordant Health Solutions™, a leading provider of innovative tools for monitoring and managing behavioral health and chronic pain patients through its unique pharmacy and drug testing programs, now offers saliva testing that...
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Opioid misuse and abuse is a long-standing and growing concern for workers’ compensation payers. Appropriate monitoring of injured worker compliance with a given treatment plan is an essential missing piece of the treatment puzzle. The Official Disability Guidelines and the American College of Occupational and Environmental...
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Even as federal and state governments make efforts to stem the growing opioid epidemic through legislation to monitor and limit the availability of prescription painkillers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week released provisional estimates that indicate a continuing rise in overdose deaths, most notably...
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This week U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions proposed changes to U.S. drug manufacturing quotas as part of the Justice Department's new initiatives to combat the opioid epidemic. In the last decade, more than 250,000 deaths were related to opioid overdose, according to the New York...
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Emergency department (ED) visits for suspected opioid overdoses increased 35 percent across 16 states from July 2016 to September 2017, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In total, the CDC found more than 140,0000 suspected opioid overdose...
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Borrowing a classic pharmaceutical sales technique, a group of doctors and pharmacists in California are catching medical providers between patients to talk about opioid prescribing habits, reports the Washington Post. This practice, known as “academic detailing,” a play on the pharma industry’s “pharmaceutical detailing,” is...
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