In a speech last week, Pain News Networkreports, AMA President Barbara McAneny described her own experience with the damage caused by anti-opioid zeal. When a patient with metastatic prostate cancer was suffering from bone pain 👇
that was not adequately relieved by his medication, "I increased the dosage of his opioids from two per day to three, and of course he ran out early," McAneny said. "So I called his primary care physician, who agreed to write a prescription for 👇