by Ajay K. Gupta | Oct 5, 2018 | Health Policy, Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Public Health
Congressional Quarterly reports an 18% reduction in opioid use among Medicare patients in recent years1. This is certainly movement in the right direction – especially considering prescriptions to this population have long been considered a source of diverted opioids....
by admin | Mar 30, 2018 | Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic
Companies seek to shift the tide in the battle against Opioid addition by merging HSR’s AI-tech with myMAR’s caregiver-focused online portal. The Opioid epidemic is ravaging our country, hitting our nation so hard, that it alone has lowered life expectancy in the...
by Ajay K. Gupta | Feb 12, 2018 | Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Pain Management, Public Health
Purdue Pharma LP has announced an end to its practice of pressuring physicians to write prescriptions of OxyContin – a market leading opioid pain killer. Purdue’s move, as reported in Friday’s Wall Street Journal article, “Purdue Pharma to Stop Promoting OxyContin to...
by admin | Jan 30, 2018 | Clinical Trials, Health Data, Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Pain Management
Fight Fire with Fire is certainly and age-old adage. And Philadelphia’s plan to open up “injection sites” where anyone can walk-up and use their drugs under medical supervision is certainly gaining a lot of attention. Opponents call it enabling...
by admin | Jan 24, 2018 | Clinical Trials, Crowd Funding, Golf, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Public Health
Webster’s dictionary defines Epidemic as “a sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon.” That is exactly what the we are experiencing with opioids. HSR has taken on this battle in many ways and now we have launched a grassroots campaign to...
by admin | Oct 23, 2017 | Health Policy, Opioid Abuse, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, Uncategorized
HSR CMO Ram Peruvemba, MD, a board-certified Anesthesiologist and Pain Management physician, is serving as a Maryland Delegate to the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) currently taking place at the Boston Convention and...
